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.

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

spat, his alcohol tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the

with fear.

smell of stale

wrist, and

off!” I screeched, bringing my

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

the tears that had

locked, I flopped down on my bed and

were harder than others, but it would all

years, I had quickly lost hope that Melissa would treat me like her own

bed for hours, not daring to move until I

trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid

was always extremely aware of Frank’s movements in the house, and always needed to be on guard around him. That fact

out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and

came around much too quickly. After a few hours of

outfits I had recently bought, a

bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked

talked while working on our assignments. My next class was the one I was worried about. Kade’s

other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue button down shirt, while Alec had on a

table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d have to

sometimes scarier, so I plopped down

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

project?” Alec teased, his hot breath curling around my

shudder wracked through my body and Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project.

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

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