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 pier, standing by the river and smoking

cool down

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

She must be

a heartless

like this city shiny on the outside, but a little lonely under the vast

parents, and teachers-was caught up in a tense

pulled up their socks on the two

the podium keeping an eye out,

everyone did was check answers with

test papers, walked out of the classroom just as Preston approached.

it go?” she asked

“I’m already thinking about what

nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good,

were over, and the students had gone home for

still nervously grading

or not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn

come in

was completely shocked when she saw his

make sure nothing was

were tallied, most

was top

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

surprised by the results.

report card, raising an eyebrow in skepticism.-

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it

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

mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn. if I got into the top

him,

leaned in, smirking,

you want her to

“Be my auntie.”

are

mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that

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