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 be abusive

yanked me closer to him and I nearly

body felt cold with fear. He was much too

disgusting smell of stale beer

around my wrist, and I gritted my teeth against

I screeched, bringing my

hiss of pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my bedroom and

tears that had sprung up in

flopped down on my bed and let a few tears trail down

others, but it would

treat me like her own daughter and

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

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

be on guard around him. That fact alone was

shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell into

came around much too quickly. After a few hours of restless

bought, a pair of skinny jeans and

left on my porcelain skin and yanked

the one I was worried about. Kade’s comment about cologne at the restaurant had me confused, but

had that messy look that other guys struggled

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

serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so

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

the little doll finish our group project?” Alec

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

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

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