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. Frank was always

sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the sight

fear. He was much

smell of stale

around my wrist, and I

screeched, bringing my knee up in between

dropped my wrist. I could hear his

with the lock through the tears that had

down on my bed and let a few tears

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

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

to move until I heard the front door open and Melissa come

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

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

shower feeling

few hours of restless sleep, I woke

on one of the outfits I had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an off-shoulder long

down at the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked my

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

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

sat across from Kade.

Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down in the seat

as if he had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted

the little doll finish our group project?” Alec teased,

through my body and Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course

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