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.

midnight, he rolled down the car windows and let the wind mess

standing by the river and smoking

cool down

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

at her darkened apartment. She must

a heartless woman.

like this city

everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up in a

socks on the two

with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping

over, the first thing everyone did was check answers with their

test papers, walked out of the classroom

it go?” she asked

of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what

you did pretty good, didn’t

and the students had gone home for the holidays.

still nervously

knew whose students did well or not until the results

before, had come in third

when

checked his paper again to make sure nothing was missed,

scores were tallied,

her class was top of

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

wasn’t surprised by

at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned

“Go make your

spreading across his face.

him, his brow

leaned in, smirking,

you want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you out of your mind?”

other uncles, you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to

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