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?

kids are already growing

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

office for a bit.” Melvin had already steered the

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

take long. Just hang in

like arguing anymore.

Melvin got on

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,

Willow showed

manner,

said to her assistant, the assistant relayed 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

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

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

her blood boiling in an instant, her

somewhere off to the side. He followed her gaze and caught sight of Calvin, empty-handed, looking

rummaged through a bag and said something

Chapter 63

a second, Calvin soon plastered on a smile and went over to open their car

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

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

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

of

minivan.

seen him coming because the door

her dad stood in front of Melvin, all meek and respectful, and her heart twisted in pain.

security

and there are those who’ll trash-talk you behind your back, trampling the profession all

rounds, or lending a hand when folks were laden with stuff seemed only natural. To

Willow was different; it felt like

look and gaze she gave clued her that it

Willow knew

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

and out?

big deal. But it was clear that

call, nor to see him treading on eggshells with a

that moment, Melvin fixed Willow with a cold stare, “What do you think