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

glance at him. He was

bit.” Melvin had already steered the car

and I’ll hail a cab,” Jocelyn said, not wanting

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

like

company’s open-air lot, parked, and Melvin got on the phone without getting out

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

enough, Willow showed up.

a cocky manner, she looked down her nose at Calvin with sheer

to head away when he was called back again; as he listened to the assistant, he nodded and smiled. Then he

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

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

an instant, her

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

rummaged through a bag and

Chapter 63

soon plastered on a smile and went over to open their

the end of her patience. But she couldn’t

was deliberately giving her dad the runaround or not, he had taken the job. If she stormed out now, it would only embarrass

swallowing down the anger which was about to choke

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

minivan.

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

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

that being a security guard was no

citizen, and there are those who’ll trash-talk

stuff seemed only natural. To do a favor like that was due

Willow was different; it felt like she was deliberately treating her

gave clued her that it was

was sure. Willow knew he

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

and out?

they genuinely needed help, no big deal. But it was

didn’t want to see her father at Willow’s beck and call, nor to

a cold stare, “What do you think

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