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.

you don’t belong here. You’d never understand how to deal with the

tightens. “Your attempts at scaring me are childish

wobbled beneath me. I cursed, feeling embarrassed

was so out of my league. It felt like I dropped right into

kept reaching out and searching for the client of my boss’s dreams.

had to keep

a 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 in

packed up for

I pulled it from my purse and looked down at

Aria.

picked up her call, pressing the phone to my ear. “Hey.”

coming from the other end of the phone. “Hey,” Aria repeated. Her

is it,” I ask worriedly. “Aria, what’s

me,” she wailed. “Ryan,

I

“I don’t want to be alone,” she

nod quickly. “No, absolutely. Come over,” I urge. “We can order takeout and open a bottle

this world, Evie,”

“I’m just heading onto the elevator.”

sniffled

see you soon,” I

“Okay. Bye.”

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

was set to arrive about the time I

off my heels and shrugged off my blazer, throwing it on the

grab it. A tearful

say quickly, ushering her inside

was ‘working’ on himself,” she says with air quotations. “But we all know what that

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

again, sobbing uncontrollably. “I’m going to

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

going to die

hate men,” she

real a-hole today. There’s a reason he’s number two on my hit

number one on that list,”

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