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.
he rolled down the car windows and let the wind
by the river and smoking another two cigarettes, feeling the heat inside him
cool down
Melvin drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By
up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a baby
a heartless woman.
the open road. He felt just like this
parents, and teachers-was caught up in
up their socks on the two
during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye
first thing everyone did was check answers with their
out of the classroom just
go?” she asked
was full of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what
“Wow, you did pretty good,
students had gone home for the
teachers were still nervously
the results were announced, and Jocelyn and the other teachers were gobsmacked.
who’d never passed before, had come
when
sure nothing was missed, and they
were tallied, most teachers were congratulating
top of
to Preston’s third-place score, they left the second-place class
wasn’t surprised by the results.
report card, raising an eyebrow in
“No cheating?”
me. Earned it fair and
card. “Go make your mom’s day.”
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 a request.”
him, his brow
leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”
do you want her to
“Be my auntie.”
“Preston, are you out of
off. “I have other uncles, you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think
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