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.

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

He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the sight

entire body felt cold with fear. He

disgusting smell

grip was tightening around my wrist, and I gritted my

my knee up in between his

could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my bedroom and slammed the door behind

lock through the tears that had sprung

my bed and let a few tears trail down

harder than others, but it would all be worth it

Melissa would treat me like her own daughter and instead looked forward to

to move until I heard the front door open and

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

to be on guard around him. That

shower feeling completely exhausted, and

morning came around much too quickly. After a few hours of

one of the outfits I had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an

at the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked

first and second class of the day was with Tori. We sat and talked while working 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 let it flit from my mind shortly after

hair were tousled and had that messy look that other guys struggled to

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

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

he had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested in what the teacher was

the little doll finish our group project?” Alec teased,

shudder wracked through my body and Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let the troublesome twins ruin my

didn’t answer Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles that bubbled against

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