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 taped your heels.”

at scaring me are childish

wobbled beneath me. I

like I dropped right

his words deter me. I kept reaching out and searching for

to keep

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

I packed up for the night.

I pulled it from my purse and looked

Aria.

call, pressing the phone to

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

I ask worriedly. “Aria, what’s wrong?”

dumped me,” she wailed. “Ryan, dumped

so sorry,” I say

louder. “I don’t want

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

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

just

she sniffled again.

you soon,” I promise gently.

“Okay. Bye.”

much better at hailing a cab. I used to be much less assertive than I

of it was set to arrive

little apartment, I kicked off my heels and shrugged off my blazer, throwing it on the

run to grab it. A tearful Aria stands at

inside with a gentle hand. “What happened?”

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

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

breaks down again, sobbing uncontrollably. “I’m

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

die alone, it was

men,” she whines in frustration.

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

that list,” Aria says, with almost

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