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.

few times he had managed to get this close to me weren’t pretty. Frank was always handsy when he was drunk,

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

entire body felt cold with fear. He was much too

smell of stale beer and

and I gritted my teeth against

screeched, bringing my knee up

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

with the lock through the tears

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

but it would all be worth it when I left

me like her own daughter and instead looked forward to escaping the

to move until I

then I pulled myself off the bed and trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid the tears as they fell from my eyes, and I gave up

extremely aware of Frank’s movements in the house, and always needed to be on guard around

the shower feeling

a few hours of restless

on one of the outfits I had recently bought, a

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

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

and had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve.

normal table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d have to sit next to one of

sometimes scarier, so I plopped down

had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive

little doll finish our group project?” Alec teased,

shudder wracked through my body and Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t

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