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?

hitched and her kids are already growing

glance at him. He

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

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

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

feel like arguing anymore.

and Melvin got on

car, 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

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

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

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

staring at the company entrance, and the sneer on their

an instant, her fists clenching slightly.

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

sopistant rummaged through a bag

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

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

or not, he had taken the job.

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

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

minivan.

folks inside it must’ve seen him coming because the door swung

Melvin, all meek and respectful, and

that being a security

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

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

Willow was different; it felt like she was deliberately

gave clued her that it was Intentional

Willow knew

why didn’t she bother the assistant? Why would she ask a man in his fifties,

and out?

big deal. But it was

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

Melvin fixed Willow with a cold