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.
rolled down the car windows and let the wind mess up his hair as he drove.
at the pier, standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes,
cool down
planning to. By the time he snapped out
looked up at her darkened apartment. She must be
what a heartless
road. He felt just like this city
teachers-was caught up in a
socks
as silent as the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing
thing everyone did was check answers
papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston approached.
it go?”
“I’m already thinking about what favor you’ll owe me.”
you did
students had gone home for
still nervously grading
until the results
had come in third in
when she saw
make sure nothing was
were tallied, most teachers
surprises, her class was top of the grade again.
Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place class trailing by dozens
wasn’t surprised by the
Preston’s report card,
“No cheating?”
scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it fair and square.”
report card. “Go
got something to tell 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
him,
leaned in, smirking, “Pretty
you want her to do?”
“Be my auntie.”
darkened instantly, “Preston, are you out
got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle is
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