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.

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

sensitive nose. He yanked me closer

entire body felt cold with fear. He was

smell of stale beer and body

and I gritted my teeth against the

off!” I screeched, bringing my knee up in

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

with the lock through the tears that

down on my bed and let a

days were harder than others, but it would all be

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

on the bed for hours, not daring to move until

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

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

the shower feeling

few hours

had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an

grimaced down at the handprint bruise left on my

second class of the day was with Tori. We sat and talked while working 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 it flit from my mind

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

from Kade. I grimaced to myself,

and sometimes scarier, so I

eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested in what the teacher was

the little doll finish our group project?” Alec teased, his

my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished

didn’t answer Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles that bubbled against my skin under his