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 he was drunk, whether it

me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the sight of his

body felt cold with fear. He was much too close

the disgusting smell

around my wrist, and I gritted my teeth against the

I screeched, bringing my knee up in between

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

lock through the tears that had

successfully locked, I flopped down on my bed

would all be worth

the years, I had quickly lost hope that Melissa would treat me like her own daughter and instead

for hours, not daring to move until I heard the front

the bed and trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid the

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 restless sleep, I woke up and changed

had recently bought, a

on my porcelain skin

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 happened. Apparently the two of them

that messy look that other guys

at our normal table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d have to sit next

and sometimes scarier, so I

some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins

project?” Alec teased, his hot

shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the

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

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