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. Frank was

sensitive nose. He yanked me closer

body felt cold with fear. He was

at the disgusting smell of stale beer

and

bringing my knee up

hear his drunken yelling as I ran to

fumbled with the lock through the tears that had sprung up in

successfully locked, I flopped down on my bed and let a few tears trail down my

were harder than others, but it would all

hope that Melissa would treat me like her own daughter and instead looked forward to

daring to move until I heard the

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

needed to be on guard around him. That fact alone was tiring and

feeling completely exhausted,

quickly. After a few hours of

I had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an off-shoulder long sleeve

left on my porcelain

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 them did

both looked equally irresistible. Both 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

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

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

as if he had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested in

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

ignored him. Of course I finished

collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles that bubbled against my

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