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.

pretty. Frank was always handsy when he was drunk, whether it be abusive

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

with fear. He was

at the disgusting smell of stale beer and

was tightening around my wrist, and I

said get off!” I screeched, bringing my knee

pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my

through the tears that had

successfully locked, I flopped down on my bed

were harder than others, but it would all

hope that Melissa would treat me like her own daughter

daring to move until I heard the front

The steaming water hid

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

hopped out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and

few hours of restless sleep, I woke up and changed

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

down at the handprint bruise left on my

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

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

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

seemed to be more serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down in the seat beside

I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested

our group project?” Alec

lips shut and ignored him. Of

over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in

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