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 to just give up,” he says, lowering his tone. “It’s obvious you don’t belong here. You’d never understand how to

“Your attempts at scaring me are childish at best. I’d

of how my heel wobbled

so out of my league. It felt like I dropped right into the deep end without

words deter me. I kept reaching out and searching for the client of my boss’s dreams.

just had to keep

come near me with a ten foot pole. I would suspect sabotage from my colleague, but something told me Jasper was much too confident

I packed up for

I pulled it from my purse and looked down at

Aria.

her call, pressing the phone to my ear.

I could hear was soft sniffles coming from the other end of the phone. “Hey,” Aria repeated. Her voice was wobbly and

is it,” I ask

wailed. “Ryan, dumped me!”

sorry,” I say apologetically. “What can

louder. “I don’t want to be alone,”

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

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

just

she sniffled again.

see you soon,”

“Okay. Bye.”

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

of it was set to arrive about

I kicked off my heels and shrugged off my blazer,

it. A tearful Aria stands at my door, still wiping her cheeks

in,” I say quickly, ushering her inside with a

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

didn’t know what that meant.

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

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

die alone, it was probably

men,” she whines in frustration.

today. There’s a reason he’s

on that list,” Aria says, with almost pleading

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