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.

this close to me weren’t pretty. Frank was always handsy when he was drunk, whether it

He spat, his alcohol tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and

fear. He was much too close for

disgusting smell of stale beer and body

my wrist, and I gritted my teeth

I screeched, bringing my knee

dropped my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my bedroom and slammed the

through the tears that

my bed

were harder than others, but it would all be

like her own daughter and instead looked

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

pulled myself off the bed and trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid

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

out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and

After a few hours of

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

bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked my sleeve

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

that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue button down shirt, while

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

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

kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested in what the teacher

project?” Alec teased, his hot breath curling around

shut and ignored him. Of course I finished

I didn’t answer Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath

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