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?

her kids are already growing like weeds.

him. He was

a bit.” Melvin had already steered

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

the car. “Won’t take long. Just

feel like

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

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

enough, Willow

was dolled up in designer duds In a cocky manner, she looked down her nose at Calvin

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 the

by the car, their words lost on the wind, but

the company entrance, and the sneer on their

in an instant,

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

sopistant rummaged through a bag and said something

Chapter 63

smile and went over to open their car door for

came to the end of her patience. But she

or not, he had taken the job. If she

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

brow. Without answering her, he just got out of the car and slammed the door, striding towards the

minivan.

seen him coming because the

as her dad stood in front of Melvin, all meek and respectful, and

being a security guard was no cakewalk.

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

hand when folks were laden with stuff seemed only natural. To do a favor like that was due

witnessed with Willow was different; it felt like she was

look and gaze she gave clued her that it was Intentional

Willow knew he

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

and out?

help, no big deal. But it was clear that wasn’t the case.

at Willow’s beck and call, nor to see him

with a cold stare, “What

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