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 of his sweat

body felt cold with fear. He was much too

disgusting smell of stale

was tightening around my wrist, and I

said get off!” I screeched, bringing my knee up

his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran

fumbled with the lock through the tears that had

down on my bed and let a few tears trail down

harder than others, but it would all

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

for hours, not daring to move until

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

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

hopped out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell into

hours of

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

the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin and

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 it had

and Alec both looked equally irresistible. Both of the twins’ hair were tousled and had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue button down shirt, while 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

my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins

our group project?” Alec

Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let the troublesome

and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at