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 already

another glance at him.

the office for a bit.” Melvin had

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

“Won’t take long. Just

didn’t feel like arguing

and Melvin got on the phone without getting out

Jocelyn 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

Willow

manner, she looked down her nose at

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

by the car, their words lost on the

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

an

daggers somewhere off to the side. He followed her gaze and caught sight of Calvin, empty-handed, looking like he was trying to explain the missing goods.

rummaged through a bag and said

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

Jocelyn came to the end of her patience. But she couldn’t blow her

was deliberately giving her dad the runaround or not, he had taken the job. If she stormed

lighter, swallowing down the anger which was about to choke her,

of the car and slammed the door, striding

minivan.

folks inside it must’ve seen him coming because

stood in front of Melvin, all meek and respectful, and her heart twisted

being a security guard was no

it’s like you’re a second-class citizen, and there are those who’ll trash-talk you

a hand when folks were laden with stuff seemed only natural. To do a favor like that was due to basic human decency, even

just witnessed with Willow was different; it felt like

look and gaze she gave clued her that it was Intentional

sure. Willow knew

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

and out?

genuinely needed help, no big deal. But

call, nor to see him treading

cold stare, “What do you think