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.

down the car windows and let the wind mess up

at the pier, standing by the river and

cool down

planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was

looked up at her darkened apartment. She

what a

like this city shiny on the

teachers-was caught up in a

slackest students pulled up their socks on the two days of

the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the same at the back of the room.

the first thing everyone did was check answers with their

of the

it go?”

was full of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what favor you’ll

nodded, “Wow, you did

and the students

teachers were still nervously grading papers.

one knew whose students did well or not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn

had come in third in the grade.

completely shocked when she saw his

make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging puzzled

the scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating

surprises, her class was top of

score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens of points.

wasn’t surprised by the

looked at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it

card. “Go make your mom’s day.”

to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn.

glared at him,

in, smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

do you want

“Be my auntie.”

darkened instantly, “Preston, are you

forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I

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