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

pier, standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the heat

cool down

to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By

darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a baby

a heartless woman.

He felt just like this city shiny on the

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

their socks

at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the same

the first thing everyone did was check answers with their

test papers, walked out of

go?” she

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

you did pretty good,

finals were over, and the students had gone home

still nervously grading

the results were announced, and Jocelyn and the

had come

when

checked his paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and

the scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating

surprises, her class was top of the grade

the second-place class trailing by dozens

by

at Preston’s report card,

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned

“Go make your

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, she’d grant me

glared at him,

smirking, “Pretty

you want

“Be my auntie.”

are you out of

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

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