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.

lowering his tone. “It’s obvious you don’t belong here. You’d never understand how

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

to my cubicle, aware of how my heel wobbled beneath me. I cursed, feeling

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

his words deter me. I kept reaching out and searching

just had to

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 the extra

up for

it from my purse and looked down at the screen.

Aria.

up her call, pressing the phone to my

second, all I could hear was soft sniffles coming from the other end of the

frowned. “What is it,” I ask

wailed. “Ryan, dumped

so sorry,” I say apologetically. “What can

grew louder. “I don’t want to

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

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

answer. “I’m just heading onto the elevator.”

she 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 order at our favorite Italian restaurant. I got us the whole thing– pizza, pasta,

was set to arrive about

kicked off my heels and shrugged off my

and I run to grab it. A tearful Aria stands at my door, still wiping her cheeks of

inside with a

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

felt bad that I didn’t know what that meant.

again, sobbing uncontrollably.

babe,” I say, laughing quietly as I drew her in for a hug.

going to die alone, it was probably

men,” she

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

on that

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