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?

his sister’s hitched and her kids

him.

to swing by the office for a bit.” Melvin had already steered

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

take long. Just hang in the

feel like

into the company’s open-air lot, parked, and Melvin got on the phone

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

Willow showed

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

stepped outside, and whatever Willow 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 dashed back into

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

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

her blood boiling in an

to the side. He followed her gaze and caught sight of Calvin, empty-handed, looking like he was trying to explain the

through a

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

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

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

down the anger which was about to choke her, “Is this what a security chief’s job looks like at your company?”

just got out of the

minivan.

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

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

a security guard

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

Sometimes jotting down license plates, doing rounds, or lending a hand when folks were laden with stuff seemed only natural. To do a favor like that was due

was different; it felt like she was deliberately treating

gaze she gave clued her

knew he was her dad.

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

and out?

no big deal. But it was clear that wasn’t the

want to see her father at Willow’s beck and call, nor to see

cold stare,