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 mess up his hair as he

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

cool down

apartment building without really planning to. By the time he snapped out of it, he was already there.

at her darkened apartment. She must be sleeping like a

a heartless woman.

the open road. He felt just like this city shiny on the outside, but a

the fmals approached, everyone-students, parents, and teachers-was caught up in a tense

socks on the two days of exams.

the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium keeping an

everyone

clutching test papers, walked out of

it go?” she asked

of confidence. “I’m already thinking about what

chuckled and nodded, “Wow, you did pretty

the students had gone home for the

teachers were still

results were announced, and Jocelyn and the other teachers

who’d never passed before, had come in third in the

shocked when she

his paper again to make sure

scores were tallied, most teachers were

surprises, her class was top of the grade

left the second-place class trailing

surprised by the

report card,

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it fair

report card. “Go make your

face. “I made a bet with

at him, his brow

in, smirking, “Pretty

do you want

“Be my auntie.”

“Preston, are you out

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

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