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.

past midnight, he rolled down the car windows and let the wind mess up

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

cool down

apartment building without really planning to. By

She must be sleeping like

what a heartless woman.

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

parents, and teachers-was caught up in a tense

slackest students pulled up their socks on the two

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

exams were over, the first thing everyone did was check

clutching test papers, walked out of the

it go?”

confidence. “I’m already thinking about what favor you’ll owe

nodded, “Wow, you

students had gone home for the

teachers were still nervously

well or not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn and the other teachers were

passed before, had come in third in the grade.

was completely shocked when she saw

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

tallied,

class was top of the

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

surprised by

Preston’s report card,

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it fair and

card. “Go make

his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I

him, his brow furrowing.

smirking, “Pretty clever,

you want

“Be my auntie.”

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

Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too.

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