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.

car windows and let the wind

the river and smoking another two

cool down

drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it,

up at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like

a

the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on

approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught

slackest students pulled up their socks on the two days of

Jocelyn standing at the

exams were over, the first thing everyone did

of the classroom just as

it go?”

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

“Wow, you did pretty good,

finals were over, and the students had gone

were still nervously

not until the results were

before, had come in third in

was completely shocked when she

to make sure nothing was missed, and

tallied, most teachers were congratulating Jocelyn.

her class was top of

score, they left the second-place class trailing

surprised by the results.

looked at Preston’s report card, raising an

“No cheating?”

“You underestimate me. Earned it fair

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

a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top five, she’d grant

him,

leaned in, smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

do you want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

“Preston, are you out of

you 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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