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?

sister’s hitched and her kids

another glance at him. He was driving stone-faced.

a bit.” Melvin had already steered

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

“Won’t take long. Just hang in

like arguing anymore.

open-air lot, parked, and Melvin got

the car, Jocelyn spotted her dad, alvin, at the main entrance, decked out in a security uniform. With hands

Willow showed

a cocky manner,

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

words lost on the wind, but their expressions screamed bad vibes.

and the sneer

an instant, her fists clenching

her gaze and caught sight of Calvin, empty-handed, looking like he

rummaged through a bag and said

Chapter 63

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

of her patience. But she couldn’t blow her

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

choke her, “Is this what a security chief’s job looks like at your company?”

he just got out of the car and slammed the door, striding towards the

minivan.

coming because the door swung open again.

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

a security

are those who’ll trash-talk you behind your back, trampling the

license 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

with Willow was different; it felt like she was deliberately treating her father as a

and gaze she gave clued her that it

Willow knew he was

she ask a man in

and out?

big deal. But

and call, nor

cold stare, “What do you think

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