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.

let the wind

the river and smoking another two

cool down

really planning to. By the time

She must be

what a

He felt just like this city shiny on

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

socks on the

as the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the

the first thing everyone did was check answers with their buddies.

papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston

go?” she asked

“I’m already thinking

nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good, didn’t

were over, and the students

teachers were still nervously

not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn

had come in third in the

shocked when she saw his

make sure nothing was missed, and

were tallied, most teachers were

her class was top of

to Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing

surprised by the

report card, raising an

“No cheating?”

underestimate me. Earned it

card. “Go make

you, Preston sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five,

glared at him, his brow furrowing.

in, smirking,

do you want

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you

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

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