Claimed by the Campus Hockey Alpha

Episode 6

Tatum

“You will marry, Tatum that is the end of it,” my father booms at me as he beats his fist on the pine table in the kitchen. He is such an ogre sometimes that I think it is no wonder my mother ran off with an omega and had another man’s child.

Worrying about this arranged marriage to a man old enough to be my father is too much on top of Shannon threatening to release my s*x video with Jenson all over the internet. My heart is aching with weariness and sadness.

“I will not marry, Father. I want to go and work in the city; you cannot make me marry.” His face is stormy and contorted with anger.

“You my child will do exactly as I say.”

“I am eighteen, I do not have to do anything you say,” I retort. Some days I want to break away but fear grips me because like my mother, I do not want to be outcast from the pack. The Shining Wolves is one of the leading packs and to be outcast is a fate almost as bad as instant death.

“He is too old for me. I want to marry for love not be in an arranged marriage.” My phone pings on the table. My father swipes it away and holds it in his hand.

“Exactly! It is what you need, an older man to take care of you and provide for you. It’s not like you have any other options Tatum, is it?”

“I do have options, actually.” I tell him with defiance in my voice. He huffs, I can tell his wolf wants to come out and that he is fighting hard to stay in control.

“Such as, tell me!” he barks at me. “What are these plans of yours? You have no mate, Tatum.”

“My fated mate hasn’t found me yet that is all,” I reply lowering my voice. It does me no good to argue back with my father and I want my phone. I am living in dread that Shannon has taken good on her word and is already showing my p***y to the world or my mouth around Jenson’s d**k. Why did I even agree to Jenson making videos of us? I should have known from the off that he was nothing but a loser.

“You will marry; you have no option. If you do not marry you will be outcast like your mother.”

I huff; he is a tormentor as he stands in front of me with his broad shoulders. For a man in his forties, he still has stature, his hair is still dark with only a few flecks of grey and he is the right-hand man to the leader of our pack.

“I am seeing the Alpha if you must know. Alpha Ford.” My father stops, his jaw almost hits the ground, I want to laugh at him because he looks like he doesn’t believe me. Yeah, take that!

“What did you just say? Alpha Ford, no way. Why would he even look at you?”

“Thanks, what is that supposed to mean? I’m not ugly nor am I fat.”

“You are not his type; besides he doesn’t want to settle down yet. He has a hockey career and his father already has a Luna chosen for him. Amelia will be his mate, they are fated.”

He’s such an i***t of course Amelia isn’t his fated mate, he hasn’t even been near Amelia. Ford is too busy playing with the other girls and having fun. He is never seen with anyone twice and then there was our instant attraction. The way he made my heart beat faster than usual and head pool in between my legs. Or was that because him and his hockey brothers are all coming as part of the package deal?

“He and I, Father are a deal right now. He asked me to be his mate earlier today.”

My father narrows his eyes at me, it’s like he knows about the proposal they have made to me. I know Ford only wants to fake date me because he doesn’t want to go ahead with an arranged marriage to Luna Amelia either. They are not fated mates, maybe I am. There was a connection, even Ford felt it.

“We will see how long that lasts for. Trust me, Tatum he will get bored of you. Men like that always do. His father won’t allow him to marry the daughter of a slut,” he says referring to my mother which shoots an arrow straight through my heart. I hate it when he speaks of my mother like this. She fell out of love with him, it happens. That doesn’t make her a slut.

“Are you going to be a w***e like your mother, huh?”

“Don’t talk to me like that I am your daughter.”

“Go, have your fun, Tatum but don’t come crying to me when Ford decides he will marry Amelia because that is what his father wants and you know he has to bow down to the King of the pack. It’s written in the stars.”

My father slides my mobile back to me across the pine table, I grab it quickly before he changes his mind. As he walks away from the kitchen to the back door no doubt to have a cigarette, one day those things will kill him. I take the mobile and check the messages.

Ford: Are you free tonight to meet with us and my hockey brothers? We have a night lined up of fun. We’re going to a party and I have booked a private room for all of us at the Peninsula hotel.

I gasp, the Peninsula? It’s the most expensive hotel in the city. And with him and his friends. Can I really do this? I have no choice, I need to pretend I am dating Ford for respectability and to get my father off my back. Besides, I kind of like the idea of having s*x with Ford. Just thinking about the things, him and his hockey brothers will do to me, makes my p***y slick and wet. My core heats up like a furnace flaming inside of me.

“Yes. I will meet you at the party give me the deets.”

He sends me the information. I’m excited as well as nervous. My phone beeps again, it’s from Shannon.

I open the message and my heart feels as if it has stopped beating. It’s a picture of Jenson and I being intimate. I am on my knees and he has his hands in my hair as his c**k is in my mouth.

Shannon: I hear you’re dating Ford now. I want in at his exclusive party tonight. If you don’t get me in, Tatum this picture will go viral!