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 like weeds.

glance at him.

bit.” Melvin had already steered the car

at the corner and I’ll hail a cab,” Jocelyn

take long.

didn’t feel like arguing anymore.

and Melvin got

alvin, at the main entrance, decked out in a security uniform. With hands full of bags, he used his body to prop the glass

enough, Willow

up in designer duds In a cocky manner, she looked

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.

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

sneer on their lips

in an instant,

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 explain the missing

through a bag

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

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

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

gripped her fists lighter, swallowing down the anger which was about to choke her, “Is this what a

furrowed his brow. Without answering her, he just got out of the car

minivan.

seen him coming because the door swung open again.

of Melvin, all meek

knew that being a security guard was no cakewalk.

like you’re a second-class citizen, and there are those who’ll trash-talk you behind your back, trampling the profession

rounds, or lending a hand when folks were laden with stuff seemed only natural. To do a favor like that was due to basic human decency, even if it was not

different; it felt like she was deliberately treating

she gave clued her that it was

was sure. Willow knew he was

ask a man in his fifties, nearly

and out?

But it

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

fixed Willow with a cold stare, “What do you think you’re doing?”