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.

don’t belong here. You’d

attempts at scaring me are childish

of how my heel wobbled

so out of my league. It felt like I

didn’t let his words deter me. I kept reaching out

had to keep looking.

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

packed up

from my purse and looked down at the

Aria.

the phone

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

is it,” I ask

she wailed. “Ryan, dumped me!”

inhaled deeply. “Aria, I’m so sorry,” I say apologetically. “What can I

louder. “I don’t want to be alone,”

over,” I urge. “We can order takeout

too good for this world, Evie,” she says tiredly. “Are you finally

answer. “I’m just heading

she sniffled

you soon,” I promise

“Okay. Bye.”

be much less assertive than I am now. Once inside the cab, I place an order at our favorite Italian

it was set to arrive about the

I kicked off my heels and shrugged off my blazer, throwing it

A tearful Aria stands

inside with

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

bad that I didn’t know what that meant. “What does that

down again, sobbing uncontrollably. “I’m going to

I say, laughing quietly as I drew her in for a

was going to die alone, it was probably

men,” she whines

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

who’s number one on that list,” Aria says,

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