LOGINChase’s POV“I am sure I saw her, Terry,” I insisted as we both walked into Terry’s living room together.This was the fifth time I was saying this and Terry didn’t seem to believe me.“Chase, I know that you just went through a near-death experience, but for the love of God, it wasn’t Carmen you saw,” Terry insisted.He sounded impatient this time around.I really couldn’t blame him anyway.“Did you see the girl that was hurrying out through the front door?” I asked Terry, refusing to give up.From the moment I mentioned it, Terry had said that I was reacting from what happened to me, but I knew that that wasn’t the case.Everything about Carmen Vega was engraved in my head so badly that I could recognize her from afar even though she wasn’t looking at me.Also, those pair of sneakers.Wasn’t that what she wore this morning?She had stood so close to me and even slapped me, so I would know if that was the same clothes she had on, but Terry just wouldn’t believe me, and I didn’t know
Carmen’s POVDid Chase see me?I couldn’t help but wonder, but I realty hoped not.After Millie gave me that information, I couldn’t stop myself. The moment I heard the hospital address, I had hurried out of the house with no idea whether Chase Maddox was alive or badly injured.On my way to the hospital, my heart was beating furiously.“God, please, let Chase still be alive. Let him be alive,” I had prayed fervently and quietly.I kept repeating the words until I was certain that God would have been tired of hearing them. The thought of Chase dying made me shattered in ways I couldn’t explain.The mere thought of Chase being dead made me scared like I had never been before, and I instantly began to regret fighting with him.I would never forgive myself if Chase died without talking to him again even though he was the reason we couldn’t stand each other any longer. The last encounter had caused me to slap him, and by God, I didn’t want that to be our last encounter.I just didn’t want
Chase’s POVTerry burst through the door like someone who was being chased by a wild animal.“Chase, Brother,” he said. “What the heck happened?” He asked with deep worry and concern.The doctor had only left a few seconds ago, and I told Terry the exact same thing I told the doctor.“Nothing happened, Terry, and I am fine,” I responded. And I felt fine, but Terry didn’t believe me.He came over to me and began to check every part of my body, and because of his nearness, I could feel the rapid beating of his chest.Terry was downright scared.Had he thought I had been killed?“I just said that I am fine,” I repeated emphatically.Only then did Terry stop to look at my eyes. The fear in his eyes was evident, and I didn’t realize that he cared that deeply about me.“Then what is the meaning of what I heard?” Terry asked me.“I was taking a stroll about an hour ago at the big league because I just wanted to get some air, and from nowhere, I felt the sound of a gunshot, and the feeling o
Carmen’s POV“You can’t take the offer, Carmen. She wants to compete with me. She has been looking for every means possible, and now, she wants to use you. If she wants to increase her business, then she has to think of another strategy. It doesn’t have to be endorsing a celebrity, especially a hockey player…” Those were Edna Jones’s words, and for the rest of the day, they kept haunting me.Edna Jones was nothing but a friend to me even though we had known for a very short time. She hadn’t asked me for anything before, and this shouldn’t really be difficult for me to turn down.Fiona had called me twice already in the day.“I haven’t gotten a response from you yet, Carmen,” she had reminded me.She was becoming more desperate, as though if she didn’t get the endorsement right away, her business would collapse immediately.Right from the party at Edna Jones’s country home, I knew that I wasn’t very comfortable around Fiona because she seemed like the nosy time who would stick her nos
Chase’s POVI left Tiana’s house angrier than I went there.Maybe I shouldn’t even have gone.I returned to my changing room hours ago, but still, my anger continued to simmer to the surface. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get over it, or even make it reduce.And that affected every other thing.I came back and locked myself up in my changing room, wallowing in regret and rage, wishing that I never went to Tiana’s house that night to confront her about Carmen. If I hadn’t gone there, I wouldn’t be in this mess that I couldn’t get myself out of.Benjamin tried to call me twice, but when he realized that I wasn’t going to pick up, he stopped calling.Tyler had probably gotten home to him and he wanted to share the good news, but I didn’t want to hear it.I couldn’t go out to train.I couldn’t do any exercise even right here in my changing room.I couldn’t do anything else other than allow the thought to consume me and make me feel worthless.And to think that I got into this because o
CarmenI left Steven Noble’s house and went over to Fiona’s spa. I would have gone anyway.The good part of it was that whether or not Sean Noble tried to act stubborn, he would still keep up with his routine.“Make sure he is down for his training today, Finn,” I had told him before I left. “He doesn’t have any reason not to, and make sure you don’t fall for his excuses. I would have stayed to personally watch him, but I can’t right now,” I had added.“I will, of course,” Finn had responded.One of Steven Noble’s drivers took me, but halfway to her spa, I began to have doubts. I told Fiona that I needed a few days to think about her offer, and of course, talk to Sean Noble about it; that was because I was in doubt anyway, but I simply decided to go to her right now.Or maybe I was just trying to run away from what I saw a few minutes ago.It was one thing for Chase to publicly announce his relationship with Tiana Donalds, but it was another completely different thing to see them pu







