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.

weren’t pretty. Frank

my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I

cold with fear. He was much

smell of

wrist, and I gritted my

off!” I screeched, bringing my

hiss of pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my bedroom and slammed

with the lock through the tears that

I flopped down on my bed and

would all be worth it when I left this

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

bed for hours, not daring to move until I heard

and trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid the tears as they fell from my eyes,

always extremely aware of Frank’s movements in the house, and always needed to be on guard around

the shower feeling completely exhausted, and

around much too quickly. After a few hours

I had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and

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

next class was the one I was worried about. Kade’s comment about cologne at

other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore

Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to

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

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

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

and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let the troublesome twins ruin my

Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles that bubbled against