The Unwilling CEO’s Love Game

Chapter 63

People were inherently selfish. It might be a bit harsh to generalize, but Jocelyn knew all too well that she was pretty much cut from that cloth.

She wanted to be her hubby’s everything.

She’s even thought that if she kicked the bucket, she’d want her hubby to tag along for the ride.

That’s gotta be some kind of sickness.

On some issues, she was a bit of a fanatic, too.

Melvin just shrugged it off and said, “Are there really guys like that in this world?”

Jocelyn cocked her head and eyed him, “Given our current relationship, if your mom and I fell into the river at the same time, who would you save first?”

The second the words left her lips, you could practically see his face lose all color.

“No ‘ifs’.”

Jocelyn frowned, “Can’t you just play along and give me an answer?”

“My mom’s passed away.

Jocelyn’s breath hitched, and she blurted out reflexively, I’m sorry.”

She genuinely didn’t know squat about Melvin’s family affairs; he never mentioned his parents, and she just assumed they were both hale and hearty considering he’s still a young buck.

Melvin clammed up.

Jocelyn just sat there in silence and said no more as well.

A million questions swirled in her head, but she didn’t dare to voice a single one.

Ever since she popped that question, she could feel him wrapped up in darkness, the kind where there’s no way to find your way

out.

Suddenly, a thought zipped through her mind. Could his aversion to getting married have something to do with his family? Was it because of his mother?

kids are

at him. He was driving stone-faced.

swing by the office for a bit.”

just drop me off at the corner and I’ll hail a cab,” Jocelyn said, not wanting

“Won’t take long. Just hang in the car.”

didn’t feel like

the company’s open-air lot, parked, and Melvin got on the phone

spotted her dad, alvin, at the main entrance, decked out in a security uniform. With hands full of bags, he used his body to prop the glass door, looking inside all smiles.

enough, Willow showed

manner, she looked down her

Willow said to her assistant, the assistant relayed to Calvin Calvin hurriedly turned around and was to head away when he was called back again; as he listened to the assistant, he nodded and smiled. Then he scurried to load

the car, their words lost on the wind, but their expressions screamed

were staring at the company entrance, and the sneer on their lips was obviously directed at Calvin.

boiling in an instant,

Melvin finished his call, he saw Jocelyn staring daggers somewhere off to the side. He followed her gaze and caught sight of Calvin, empty-handed, looking like he was trying

through a bag and said something

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been stunned for a second, Calvin soon plastered on a smile and went over to open their

end of her patience.

the runaround or not, he had taken the job. If she stormed out now, it would

anger which was about to choke her, “Is this what a security chief’s job looks like at

answering her, he just got out of the car and slammed the door, striding towards the still-Idle

minivan.

seen him coming because the

Melvin, all meek and respectful,

a security guard was no cakewalk.

like you’re a second-class citizen, and there are those who’ll trash-talk you behind your back, trampling the profession

stuff seemed only natural. To do a favor like that was due to basic human decency, even if it

different; it felt like she was deliberately

clued her that it was Intentional

was sure. Willow knew he was

the assistant? Why would she ask a man in his fifties, nearly at the age of retirement, to

and out?

help, no big deal. But it was clear that

to see her father at Willow’s beck and call, nor

that moment, Melvin fixed Willow with a cold stare, “What do you think you’re doing?”