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

standing by the river and smoking another two cigarettes,

cool down

really planning to. By the

apartment. She must be sleeping

what a

pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but

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

their socks on the two

was as silent as the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher doing the same at the back of the

the exams were over, the first thing everyone

out of the classroom just as Preston approached.

it go?” she

“I’m already thinking about what

nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good,

students had

still nervously

not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn

passed before, had come in third in the grade.

shocked when she saw his score.

again to make sure nothing was missed, and they all exchanging

the scores were tallied,

top

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

surprised by the results.

looked at Preston’s report card, raising

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it

dropped the report card. “Go make

sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I

glared at him, his brow furrowing.

smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

want

“Be my auntie.”

instantly, “Preston, are you out of your mind?”

shrugged it off. “I have other uncles, you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn

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