The Hockey Star’s Remorse

Chapter 3

Evie

The boss had called me into his office this morning. Dread settled in my stomach as I stepped inside and Jasper was standing there too.

“Miss Sinclair,” he says simply. “Mister Morgan. I called you both in here to discuss a rather important matter. I can’t have two interns. One of you will be let go.”

I bristle at his statement.

“The one I keep here has to demonstrate a knowledge of client acquisition that exceeds our expectations for interns. Whoever brings me the next big client will receive the role here in this office. The other will have to go.”

Jasper chuckles smugly beside me.

“Certainly, sir,” he says. “Excellence in everything, isn’t that right, Evie?”

My nails bit into my palms as anger started boiling over.

“Absolutely,” I say, feigning sweetness.

“I expect to see your client portfolios in three days,” our boss said. “I look forward to seeing what you guys bring to the table.”

As soon as we step outside his office, Jasper began his trash talk again.

“Prepare to lose, Evie,” he says with a smirk.

“I won’t lose,” I say proudly.

“Don’t lie to yourself,” he snorts. “I know you have zero prospects. It must be hard being you.”

“Oh yea? What do you have that I don’t,” I ask, folding my arms.

“My family owns the largest shipping company in the world,” he says plainly, picking at his nails.

“That’s a cowards way out,” I snort.

“It doesn’t matter,” he said quickly, a grin plastered on his face. “A client is a client. It’s not about what you know, but about who you know. It won’t matter how smart you are when you show up with nothing. I hold it all in the palm of my hand.”

I felt my stomach drop. I hated when he was right. Jasper was second on my list of most hated people I knew. Which means he was first place loser.

How fitting.

to just give up,” he says, lowering his tone. “It’s obvious you don’t belong here. You’d never understand how to deal with the one percent. I mean, look at you. You

at scaring me are childish at best. I’d suggest you focus on

how my heel wobbled beneath me. I cursed, feeling embarrassed creep onto my

of my league. It felt like I dropped right into the

didn’t let his words deter me. I kept reaching out and searching for the

to

close, I felt my first wave of defeat. Not a single bite. It was like no one would come near me with a ten foot pole. I would suspect sabotage from my colleague, but something told me Jasper was much too confident in his abilities to want to put

I packed up

pulled it from my

Aria.

pressing the phone

the other end of the phone. “Hey,” Aria repeated. Her voice was

I ask worriedly.

she wailed. “Ryan, dumped

sorry,” I say apologetically.

louder. “I don’t want to be alone,” she

can order takeout and open a bottle of wine. Maybe watch

sadly. “You’re too good for this world, Evie,” she says tiredly.

just heading onto

she sniffled again.

see you soon,” I promise

“Okay. Bye.”

hangs up, and I move double time to get home. I’ve gotten much better at hailing a cab. I used to be much less assertive than I am now. Once inside the cab, I place an order at our

was set to arrive about the time

stepped into my shabby little apartment, I kicked off my heels and shrugged off my blazer, throwing

and I run to grab it. A tearful Aria

inside with a gentle hand. “What happened?”

because he was ‘working’ on himself,” she says with air

that I didn’t know what that meant. “What does that mean?”

breaks down again, sobbing uncontrollably. “I’m going to die alone!”

I say, laughing quietly as I drew her in for a hug. “You’re not going to

if anyone was going to die

she whines

admit softly. “Jasper was a real a-hole today. There’s a

who’s number one on that list,”

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