I clocked out of work after making quite a bit of money from tips alone. It would definitely help replenish some of the money I had spent on clothes and necessities.

While I was happy to be free from work, going home was another situation entirely.

When Tori dropped me off, Melissa was still at work for another hour. That left me alone with Frank.

I knew he was completely s**t-faced the second I walked through the front door.

He sat in the recliner watching some fuzzy football match on the TV. His face contorted in anger and I sighed.

“Where the f**k have you been?” He spat, struggling to lift himself off the recliner.

I tried not to roll my eyes, knowing it only pissed him off more.

“Working, Frank.” I repeated myself for the hundredth time.

I turned to walk up the stairs and escape his drunken tirade when something he said had me turning back around.

“Working?” He scoffed, wobbling as he stood from the recliner. “You were out whoring around like your f*****g mother.”

This time I did roll my eyes. If he wasn’t drunk all of the time he’d remember that Melissa made me pay for everything myself. I didn’t have time to ‘w***e around’ when I was busy supporting myself and going to high school.

“Melissa isn’t my mother.” I snapped, turning to walk up the stairs.

His hand wrapped around my wrist and yanked me backwards.

While I didn’t fall, I did stumble back a few steps.

“Get off of me, Frank.” I mumbled, my body tensing in fear.

managed to get this close to me weren’t pretty. Frank was always handsy

nose. He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged at

cold with fear. He was

disgusting smell of

wrist, and I

bringing my knee up in between his stubby

my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my bedroom and slammed

fumbled with the lock through the tears that

the door was successfully locked, I flopped down on my bed and let a few

would all be worth it when I

would treat me like her own daughter

for hours, not daring to move until I heard the front door open and

shower. The steaming water hid the tears as they fell from my eyes, and I gave up and let them run

needed to be on guard around him. That fact alone was tiring and put

hopped out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and

too quickly. After a few hours of

one of the outfits I had recently bought, a

the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked

on our assignments. My next class was the one I was worried about. Kade’s comment about cologne at the restaurant had me confused, but I

both looked equally irresistible. Both of the twins’ hair were tousled and had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve.

and Alec sat at our normal table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade.

seemed to be more serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down in the

if he had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to

little doll finish our group project?” Alec teased, his hot breath

shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let the troublesome

collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath

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