All Chapters of The Hockey Player who Hates me : Chapter 31 - Chapter 34

Paige’s POVThe silence inside Leah’s car was nothing like our usual rides to campus.Normally, whenever Leah managed to make it out of bed early enough for campus, she'd have music blasting through the speakers, singing every lyric whether she knew the words or not.She was the first to break the silence.“You’re really not going to do it?”I looked out the window.“I'm not, Lee. I’m going to get it changed.” “You’re talking about the athletics placement, Paige?” She glanced towards me, before looking back to the road. “This would be so good for you.”I nodded.“Yes, but you know I can’t work with the hockey team.”“Because of Mike?”I laughed without humor. “Mike’s part of it.”Leah sighed. “And Knox.”There was no point pretending.“Yes.” I rested my head against the window. “I can’t spend the next four months following your brother around with paperwork after everything that’s happened.”“And Mike’s there too,” I continued. “It’s already awkward enough.”Leah bit her lip.“I’m so

Paige’s POVMike towered over me, handsome as ever.He wore a fitted black T-shirt beneath a navy varsity jacket, sleeves pushed up to his forearms, with faded blue jeans and white sneakers. His dark curls were slightly messy, probably from hockey practice, and for one ridiculous second he looked exactly like the boy I’d fallen in love with.I followed him outside across the courtyard separating the athletics building from the law faculty. I stopped outside the law building and crossed my arms over my chest. “Okay.” I looked up at him. “What do you want? Make it quick.”Mike exhaled slowly, rubbing a hand over the back of his neck. He looked at me with an expression he had used on me a million times over the course of our relationship, the one designed to make me feel like the difficult and unreasonable one. “I want you to give me another chance.”I almost laughed. “I’ve already told you a thousand times” I shook my head. “No.” Frustration bled into his face. “Babe, it’s been weeks