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 growing like weeds.

sneaked another glance at him. He was driving

a bit.” Melvin had already steered the car towards his

just drop me off at the corner and I’ll hail a cab,”

take long. Just hang in the car.”

didn’t feel like

open-air lot, parked, and Melvin got on the phone without

a security uniform. With hands full of bags, he used his body to prop the glass door, looking inside all smiles.

Willow showed

duds In a cocky manner,

Calvin Calvin hurriedly turned around and was to head away when he was called back again; as he listened to

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

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

boiling in an instant, her fists clenching slightly.

staring daggers somewhere off to the side. He followed her gaze and caught sight of Calvin, empty-handed,

through a bag and said something

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for a second, Calvin soon plastered on a smile and went over to

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

runaround or not, he had taken the

choke her, “Is this what a security chief’s job looks like

got out of the car and slammed the door,

minivan.

seen him coming because the door swung open

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

security guard was no cakewalk.

a second-class citizen, and there are those

plates, doing rounds, or lending a hand when folks were laden with stuff seemed only natural. To do a favor like that was due

just witnessed with Willow was different; it felt like she was deliberately treating

look and gaze she gave clued her that it

Willow knew

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

and out?

needed help, no big deal. But it

and call, nor to see him treading on eggshells with a forced

moment, Melvin fixed Willow with a cold stare, “What do you