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.

managed to get this close to me weren’t pretty.

nose. He yanked me closer to him

felt cold with fear. He

smell of stale

my wrist, and I gritted my teeth

my knee up in between

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

through the tears that

down on my bed and

would all be worth it when I

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

not daring to move until I heard the front

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

in the house, and always needed to be on guard around him.

feeling completely

came around much too quickly. After a few hours of restless

the outfits I had recently bought,

my porcelain

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 shortly after it had happened. Apparently the two of

tousled and had that messy look that other

Alec sat across from

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

eyes averted

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

and Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the

didn’t answer Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I