Mated to the Alpha Twins

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.

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

me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the sight

with fear. He was much too

at the disgusting smell of stale

was tightening around my wrist, and I gritted

off!” I screeched, bringing my knee up in between

pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his

through the tears that had sprung

locked, I flopped down on my bed and let a few tears trail down

would all be worth it when I left this

quickly lost hope that Melissa would treat me like her own daughter and instead looked forward to escaping

hours, not daring to move

myself off the bed and trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid the tears as they fell from my eyes, and I gave

movements in the house, and always needed to be on guard around him. That fact alone was tiring and put me in a perpetual state of

feeling

too quickly. After a few hours of restless sleep, I woke up

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

grimaced down at the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked my sleeve

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

tousled and had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue button down shirt, while Alec had

Alec sat at our normal table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d have to sit next to one

serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so

some bet. I kept my eyes averted from

doll finish our group project?” Alec teased,

shut and ignored him. Of

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