Chapter 32
At right, Melvin stood on the balcony puffing on a cigarette, gazing at the winding rivers, and the image of Jocelyn’s panic and evasion the moment she laid eyes on him popped into his mind.
Talk about tough she never backed down from him.
She’d block him on Facebook and his calls in a heartbeat, and when they met, she’d act like she didn’t even know him.
All the love he’d given over the past three years seemed to have gone with the breeze
Women are just unreasonable creatures
He’d explained himself, and she was still making a fuss about breaking up.
Totally irrational.
Thinking he’d go sweet talk her back? As if! Not in a million years.
He had given her a chance already It was her call to throw it away.
Melvin finished his smoke and turned back to his room.
Lying in bed, sleep just wouldn’t come
Every time he closed his eyes, images of Jocelyn’s seductive face and their steamy moments together flooded his
mind
Guys have their weaknesses, often with a hint of eroticism, and he was no exception and was just a regular dude.
Missing a woman, that’s just human nature.
Unable to sleep, he dived into the bathroom for a cold shower, thinking it might extinguish the fire inside him, but the
more he washed, the hotter he burned.
Ever since he and Jocelyn got together, he hadn’t taken matters into his own hands.
It was like scratching an itch, never quite as satisfying as when someone else would do it.
After spending over thirty minutes in the bathroom, Melvin got dressed, grabbed his car keys, and headed out.
and let the wind mess up his hair
at the pier, standing by the river and
cool down
apartment building without really planning to.
looked up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a baby now.
what a
gas pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this
approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up
up their socks on the two
entire school was as silent as the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the same at the
were over, the first thing everyone did was check answers with
walked out of the classroom just as Preston approached.
go?” she asked
of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what favor you’ll owe
you did pretty good, didn’t you?”
over, and the students had gone
were still nervously grading papers.
until the results were
come in
shocked when she
sure
were tallied, most teachers were congratulating Jocelyn.
her class was top of the grade again.
the second-place class trailing
wasn’t surprised by the
Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow
“No cheating?”
“You underestimate me. Earned it fair
report card. “Go make your mom’s day.”
grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn.
him, his brow
smirking, “Pretty clever,
you want her to do?”
“Be my auntie.”
darkened instantly, “Preston, are you
it off. “I have other uncles, you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my
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