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?

and her kids are

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

bit.” Melvin had already steered the car

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

stop the car. “Won’t take

like arguing

open-air lot, parked, and Melvin

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

Willow showed

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

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

lost on the wind, but their expressions screamed

and the sneer on their lips was obviously

her blood boiling in an

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

sopistant rummaged through a bag

Chapter 63

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

her patience. But she couldn’t blow her

or not, he had taken the job. If

anger which was about to choke

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

minivan.

him coming because the

her dad stood in front of Melvin, all meek and

that being a security guard

a second-class citizen, and there are those

with stuff

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

look and gaze she gave clued her that it was

knew he was her

a man in his fifties, nearly at the

and out?

big deal. But it was clear that wasn’t the

see her father at Willow’s beck and call, nor to see him treading on eggshells with a forced

Willow with a cold stare, “What do you think

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