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

river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the heat inside him

cool down

drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it,

She must be sleeping like a baby

a heartless

down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the

and teachers-was caught up in a

socks on the

school was as silent as the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping

first thing everyone

papers, walked out of

it go?” she asked

was full of confidence. “I’m already thinking about

“Wow, you

were over, and the students had gone home for the

still

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

who’d never passed before, had come in third in the grade.

was completely shocked when she saw

make sure nothing was missed,

all the scores were tallied, most teachers were

top of the grade

the second-place class trailing

by

report card,

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it

“Go make your

him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five, she’d

glared at him,

leaned in, smirking,

you want her

“Be my auntie.”

are you out of your

godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle is

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