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 when he was drunk, whether it

his alcohol tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the sight

with fear. He was

smell of stale

wrist, and I gritted my teeth

screeched, bringing my knee up in between his

a hiss of pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran

with the lock through the tears that had sprung up

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

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

would treat me like her own daughter and instead looked forward to escaping the moment I

on the bed for hours, not daring to move until I heard the front door open

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

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

feeling completely exhausted, and

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

bought, a pair of

grimaced down at the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin

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

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

table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d have to

than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down

had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended

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

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

tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a