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.

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

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

cold with fear.

grimaced at the disgusting smell of

my wrist, and I gritted

I screeched, bringing my

out a 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 had sprung

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

days were harder than others, but it would all be worth

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

sat on the bed for hours, not daring to move until I heard

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 up and let

be on guard around him. That fact alone was tiring and put me in a perpetual state of

feeling completely exhausted, and fell into

around much too quickly. After a few hours of restless sleep, I

bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an off-shoulder

handprint bruise left on my

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

had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a

sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d have to sit next to

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

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

doll finish our group project?” Alec teased, his

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

I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles that bubbled against my skin under his