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.

nose. He yanked me closer to him

entire body felt cold with fear.

at the disgusting smell

around my wrist, and I gritted my teeth against

off!” I screeched, bringing my knee up in between his stubby

let out a hiss of pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his

the lock through the tears that had

was successfully locked, I flopped down on my bed and let

but it would all be worth it when I left

treat me like her

daring to move until I heard

into the shower. The steaming water hid the tears as they

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

the shower feeling completely exhausted,

quickly. After a few hours of restless sleep, I woke up and changed for

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

grimaced down at the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin

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 shortly after it

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 had on a simple

this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to

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

kept my eyes averted from the

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

lips shut and ignored

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

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