The Unwilling CEO’s Love Game

Chapter 63

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 already growing

him. He was driving

swing by the office for a bit.” Melvin had already steered the car towards his company.

corner and I’ll hail a cab,” Jocelyn said, not wanting to be a

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

like

pulled into the company’s open-air lot, parked, and Melvin got on the phone without getting

With hands full of

enough, Willow

a cocky manner, she looked down her nose at Calvin with

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 stuff into a minivan parked out front. After stowing the gear, he dashed back into

and her assistant stood by the car, their words lost on the wind, but their expressions screamed

at the company entrance, and the sneer on their

her blood boiling in an

her gaze and caught

through a bag and said something

Chapter 63

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

of her patience. But she couldn’t

or not, he had taken the job. If she

choke her,

of the

minivan.

seen him coming because the

dad stood in front of Melvin, all meek

security guard

a second-class citizen, and there are those who’ll trash-talk you behind

plates, doing rounds, or lending a hand when folks were laden with stuff seemed only natural. To do a favor like that was due to basic human decency, even if it was not for the job.

was different; it felt like she was deliberately

gaze she gave clued her that it

knew he was

why didn’t she bother the assistant? Why would she ask a man in his fifties, nearly at the age of retirement, to run in

and out?

But

beck and call, nor to see

with a cold

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