THE VETERAN (THE SAN ANTONIO HYENAS #3) BY OLIVIA T. TURNER – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Authors: Olivia T. Turner
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary romance
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2.5 MB
- Price: Free
Harris
“After starting the season off strong,” the reporter says into the
microphone at my pre-game press conference, “the San Antonio
Hyenas are in a four-game losing streak. People are starting to put
the blame on you. They say you’ve lost your edge. That the great Harris
Sutton is not the same player he once was.”
He just stares at me, waiting for a comment.
“Is there a question in there?” I ask while glaring at him.
I hate these fucking things. I’m sitting at a table with about twelve
microphones in my face while all these sports media ‘journalists’ and
writers grill me with their stupid questions.
I want to be done with all of it, but every player is obligated to get their
time in with the media. Press conferences before games, after games, oneon-one interviews with these out of shape suits with their journalism
degrees who think they’re hockey experts because they watched a few
games. Most of them have never even held a stick and can’t skate.
“Do you think it’s time to retire?” the guy asks. I know him. He’s
always writing shit about me in his articles, saying I’m washed up.
“No comment.”
Another reporter stands up. He’s a writer on Hockey Wrap-Up, a nightly
thirty-minute show that sums up all the hockey news of the day.
“You have a big game tonight,” he says as he looks at me behind those
thick glasses. “The Denver Landslides. A division team. The team who
passed on you during your rookie season. Are you still bitter about that?”
“It was over ten years ago,” I answer. I’m trying not to roll my eyes.
These fucking guys need something to write about in their stupid articles so
they’re always manufacturing fake stories. I can already tell you what the
headline is going to be.
Harris Sutton Feeling Extra Pressure To Beat The Team That Rejected
Him.
But maybe it’s not totally fake. I do hate the Landslides for passing on
me. It’s been an extra bit of motivation over the years to prove them wrong.
I still think about it when I’m trying to get one last rep on the bench press or
when I’m pushing my exhausted body on the ice while it’s screaming at me
to throw in the towel.
When you’re a professional athlete training all the time, you take any
extra bit of motivation you can find.
“Are you feeling extra pressure to win tonight after your slew of bad
games?” he asks.
“I’m a professional hockey player,” I say in a monotone voice. “There’s
pressure to win every game.”
“But more tonight?”
This guy is really trying to push his narrative. He’s just trying to get a
comment out of me that he can play on his show. He’s not going to get it.
“No.”
He won’t let up. “Your shot accuracy has gone down thirty-seven
percent this season,” he says as he reads off his phone, “you’ve had
multiple passes stolen, and your assists, goals, and shots on net are all
among the lowest of your career.
For More Read Download This Book
EPUB