Offside Heart: Fake Boyfriends with Benefits 의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 5

Alaric’s POVBy eight the next morning, I was already regretting every decision that had brought me to this university.Especially the decision to tolerate Jovian Mercer.I walked into the locker room ten minutes before the mandatory meeting, hoping to have a few minutes of peace before Coach Brandt started lecturing us again. Instead, I found Mercer sitting on the bench with his legs stretched out, laughing at something on his phone.He looked irritatingly well-rested.“Don't you have somewhere else to be?” I asked.He glanced up. “Good morning to you too, Captain.”“Coach said to report to his office ten minutes early.”“And here I am.”“You're supposed to be in his office.”Jovian looked at the clock on the wall, then back at me. “It's 7:50. The meeting is at eight. Unless Coach has changed the meaning of ten minutes, I'm right on time.”I stared at him.He smiled. “You should try smiling sometime. You look like you swallowed a hockey puck.”“Keep talking. See how far it gets you.”

Alaric’s POVCouch was definitely after my life. The moment he dropped the message in the group last night I knew it was something neither of us was going to like.Jovian Mercer was standing outside the door, leaning nonchalantly against the wall with a coffee cup in one hand and his phone in the other.He looked up when he heard my footsteps.“Morning, Captain.”“Don't start.”“Start what? I'm greeting you. Is that against team regulations now?”I ignored him and checked my watch.My goal is to avoid any form of stupid arguments he tries to bring up.The office door opened, and Coach Brandt gestured us inside.“Sit down, both of you.”I took the chair nearest to his desk. Jovian dropped into the one beside me, stretching his legs out.Coach glanced at him. “Feet on the floor, Mercer.”Jovian lowered them. “Yes, sir.”Coach picked up a folder. “The university is hosting a series of events for prospective recruits and their families over the next few weeks. The hockey department has be