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.

windows and let the wind mess

river and

cool down

Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By

looked up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a baby now.

what a heartless

floored the gas pedal, speeding down the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under the vast night

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

socks

the grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another teacher

first thing everyone did was check answers with

papers, walked out of the classroom just as

it go?” she asked

already thinking

and nodded, “Wow, you did

over, and the students

were still nervously

not until the results

had come in third

was completely shocked when

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

scores were tallied, most

class was top of

left the second-place class trailing by dozens of

surprised by the

report card, raising

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair

dropped the report card. “Go make your mom’s

tell you, Preston sidled up to him, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made

him,

leaned in, smirking,

want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

are you out of your mind?”

got a godbrother. He’s

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