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.

me weren’t pretty. Frank was always handsy when he was

tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer

entire body felt cold with fear. He was much too close for

the disgusting smell of stale beer and body

wrist, and I

get off!” I screeched, bringing my

I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my bedroom and slammed

lock through the tears that had

on my bed and let a

but it would all be worth it when I left this

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

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

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

needed to be on guard around him. That fact alone

the shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell into

few hours of

put on one of the outfits I had recently bought, a pair of

left on my porcelain skin and yanked my

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 them

that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore

Alec sat at our normal table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I

Alec and sometimes scarier, so

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

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

lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the

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

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