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.

let the wind

by the river and smoking another

cool down

to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to. By the

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

what a heartless

felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a little

parents, and teachers-was caught up in a

slackest students pulled up their socks on the two days of

with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an eye out, another

over, the first thing everyone did was check

of the classroom just as

it go?”

thinking about what favor you’ll owe me.”

and nodded, “Wow, you did

over, and the students

teachers were still nervously

one knew whose students did well or not until the results were announced, and Jocelyn and

who’d never passed before, had come

completely shocked when

paper again to make sure nothing was missed, and they

tallied,

was top of

left the second-place class trailing by dozens of points.

surprised by

at Preston’s report card, raising an eyebrow in

“No cheating?”

me. Earned it

card. “Go make

grin spreading across his face. “I

at him,

smirking, “Pretty clever, huh?”

do you want her to do?”

“Be my auntie.”

“Preston, are you

you know. Don’t forget, my mom’s got a godbrother. He’s my uncle too. I think introducing Jocelyn to that uncle is a

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