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

2 a.m., Melvin drove to Jocelyn’s apartment building without really planning to.

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

a heartless

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

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

their socks on the two days of

grave during the exams, with Jocelyn standing at the podium

thing everyone did was check

walked out of the classroom just

it go?” she asked

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

and nodded, “Wow, you did pretty good, didn’t

were over, and the students had gone home for the holidays.

were still

until the results were announced, and Jocelyn

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

when

paper again to make sure

scores were tallied, most teachers were congratulating

top

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

by

card, raising an

“No cheating?”

scoffed, “You underestimate me. Earned it fair and

card. “Go make your

a mischievous grin spreading across his face. “I made a bet with Jocelyn.

at him,

in, smirking, “Pretty

want

“Be my auntie.”

are you

a godbrother.

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