All Chapters of Claimed By The Hockey Captain: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

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Lori’s POVTonight wasn’t just my twentieth birthday. It was the night the secrecy ended.For six long months, Travis kept us hidden. He wanted our relationship away from the campus gossip. But tonight, he had promised to tell everyone about us. I smoothed my sweaty hands down my emerald silk dress. Tonight was supposed to be the night. I planned to give him everything. My virginity was wrapped up like a milestone birthday gift."Aren’t you tired of staring at yourself?" Jessica asked. She leaned against the bathroom doorframe, swirling a tequila bottle in her hand.Ann, my other roommate, shot Jessica a sharp glare. "Ignore her. You look beautiful, Lori. Twenty looks good on you. Just promise me you won’t let Jessica talk you into doing body shots off the kitchen island tonight.""Hey! It’s a birthday tradition!" Jessica argued. I laughed, while my eyes kept darting to my phone on the marble counter. There was still no text from Travis. My roommates knew I was seeing someone, but

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Lori’s POV Without waiting to see what he is about to do next, I took my car keys and ran out of the room. I rushed past Jessica and Ann in the hallway. Their worried voices shouted my name. However, I ignored them and plunged out of the apartment and into the cold night air. I knew how reckless it is to drunk drive. But I needed to escape, so I took the risk. Not stopping until I got to a bar which was miles off the school premises. I went inside in staggered steps and slid onto a cracked leather barstool in the farthest, darkest corner of the pub. While waiting to place my order, I wrapped my arms tightly around my middle. Trying to stop the shaking. "Beer or whiskey?" The bartenders with white beards asked. He gave me a look that told me knew about my heartbreak. "I need something strong that would make me forget about everything that happened tonight," I muttered, hating how fresh the image of Travis and Elena is on my head. My God, I despise them so much. My phone

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Lori’s POVA dark gleam flashed on his eyes as Lucas’s smirk widened. He guided me out by placing his palm firmly against the small of my back. I was putting on a denim jacket, but the heat from his touch burned into my skin.I was surprised to find out that his dorm room didn't look like a typical college boys own. There was no trace of dirtiness anywhere. In fact, it smelled of cedar wood and laundry detergent. However, immediately his door closed behind us, the charming casualness disappeared. He rushed to where I was standing. His large frame completely blocking out the light from the hallway. While his hands came up to frame my face, and his thumbs wiping away the streaks of my smudged mascara."Let me guess. You are still thinking about whatever made you so angry," Lucas murmured, his eyes looking right through me. "And another guess is that it is a guy.""You’re not completely wrong," I breathed, my heart slamming against my ribs. "But I want to forget. I want... I want to

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Lori’s POV My eyes snapped shut. I couldn't tell them about Lucas. Not yet. I couldn't even process it myself."Travis cheated on me," I croaked. My voice sounded raw, completely ruined. "With Elena. On my freaking bed."Jessica’s jaw dropped. She gasped so loud it filled the quiet space. "That absolute piece of garbage! Wait, you and Travis? Since when were you guys even a thing?""We’ve been going out for six months," I confessed. I choose to stare at the coffee. "He wanted to keep it a secret. He was supposed to tell everyone last night. Instead, I walked in on them.""Oh, Lor," Ann sighed. Shifting closer to me, she encircled my shoulders with her slender hands. And wrapped me in a long hug."I'm going to squeeze that son of a bitch," Jessica curse under her breath. While moving back and forth. "And Elena? That plastic Barbie is dead to me. But where did you go after? We called you like a million times."My heart did a violent, heavy stutter against my ribs. "I just... I drove a

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LoriIt was not just because of Lucas. It was because of the person sitting on the opposite side of the stadium.I looked up at the special seating section reserved for the varsity athletes. Travis sat right in the middle of his fraternity brothers, wearing his black football jacket. He looked good, but he was not watching the hockey game. He was leaning down, his head bent close to Elena. She sat a row below him, wearing her full cheerleading uniform.Elena laughed at something he whispered. She threw her head back, her fingers brushing against his knee. A real, physical ache hit me right in the chest. For half a year, he hid me from everyone. He treated me like a dirty secret. “The football team doesn’t need the distraction right now, Lor,” he had told me every time I asked. “Let’s just keep this between us for a little while longer.”Every single excuse he ever gave me turned into a lie that made me sick to my stomach. Now, here he was openly flirting with another girl. The worst

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Lori"You are absolutely not staying in tonight to cry over that cheating piece of trash," Jessica said. She threw a tight, cropped black top and a short leather skirt right onto the middle of my unmade bed. "There is a massive bonfire happening right now down at the campus lake. Travis is going to be there. Elena is definitely going to be there. So you also, are going to be there. Of course looking the hottest you have ever been. I need that silly Travis on his knees when he sees you."Standing there, I stared at the clothes which weren’t even my style. Some parts of my body were still aching from what I did with Lucas last night.My brain was a complete and total mess, too. I couldn't stop thinking about the brutal fight I had just watched him pick on the ice. I wasn’t interested in seducing Travis in some tight skimpy clothes. However, a second glance at the skirt had some ideas rushing into my head. Some dangerous ones at that.Instead of making Travis, who doesn’t even deserve

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LucasI was supposed to be sweating over what the head coach was going to do to me. He had already given me a final warning the last time I let my temper get the best of me on the ice. But when that bastard came at me from behind, I couldn't hold back. I didn't want to.But honestly, the looming suspension wasn't what was actually occupying my mind. What was really stuck at the back of my brain was the scent of the sweetest girl I’ve ever had beneath me.Lori.Normally, if a girl panicked and bolted out of my dorm bed at three o'clock in the morning, leaving behind a complete mess of my sheets. I would have been pissed off. I would have blocked her number and forgotten she existed.But Lori was different. I couldn't get her out of my head. I had spent the whole day staring at her, first in the cafeteria, and then from across the stadium during the game. It had taken every single ounce of my willpower not to ignore the plays entirely and just skate over to where she was sitting.This h

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LoriI woke up to a searing pain around my ankle and knees. Blinking my eyes open, they met white ceiling. A deep frown pulled at my face. This definitely wasn't my bedroom. There were no cute, glow-in-the-dark star stickers scattered across the drywall here.It was only when the harsh scent of antiseptic hit my nose that the memory of the fall during the cheerleading practice came flooding in. I gasped, instinctively trying to bolt upright, but a sharp spike of pain shot through my leg, forcing me back down. Shaking, I managed to prop myself up on my elbows. My right leg was completely buried under a thick, rigid bandage, elevated on a stack of stiff pillows.I stared down at it, my mind racing. How the hell did a mistake like that happen? Our bases were solid. We practiced those exact landing formations a hundred times a week. The girls on the bottom didn't just drop people. Unless I had been too distracted. My brain had been a complete mess ever since my birthday night. It’s not

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LoriThe fake smile completely slipped off my face the exact second the hospital door swung open.Ann and Jessica had called me last night, crying and apologizing over the phone for not making it to the hospital sooner. They had promised they would be here first thing in the morning. Because of that, I had spent the last twenty minutes practicing my brightest, most carefree smile in the reflection of my phone screen. I wanted to prove to them that I was totally fine. I absolutely hated it when Jessica worried too much about me.But it wasn't my best friends who walked through the door.It was Travis. He was holding a massive bouquet of red roses, looking around the room with a nervous, guilty squint.“What the hell are you doing here?” I snapped, the words cutting through the quiet room like ice.“Cliché,” he muttered, trying to sound casual as he stepped forward and set the flowers down on the plastic rolling table near my bed. “Honestly, Lori, I was expecting you to say exactly that

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LoriI saw Jessica and Ann run into the room through a terrifying blur of spots and watering eyes.They threw themselves onto Travis, screaming and ripping at his arms with everything they had. They pulled and clawed at his wrists until his fingers finally snapped away from my skin. The moment the pressure released, I slumped back against the pillows, coughing so violently that my chest burned. I couldn't breathe. I genuinely thought I was going to pass out right there.“What the hell is wrong with you?” Jessica shrieked, her face pale, her eyes wide with absolute shock.“Were you seriously trying to strangle her?” Ann yelled, stepping between Travis and my bed.“This is absolutely none of your business, you bitches!” Travis roared, his face twisted into an ugly, sweaty mask. He took a menacing step toward them, completely unhinged. “Leave me the hell alone with my girl. We aren't done talking.”I kept my hands pressed flat against my throat, trying desperately to force air back int

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