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.

had managed to get this close to me weren’t pretty. Frank was always handsy when he was drunk, whether it be abusive or

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

felt cold with fear. He was much too close

the disgusting smell

grip was tightening around my wrist, and

my

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

through the tears that had sprung up

on my bed and let a

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

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

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

The steaming water hid the tears as

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

shower feeling completely exhausted, and

too quickly. After a few hours of restless sleep, I

bought, a pair

at the handprint bruise left on my porcelain

I was worried about. Kade’s comment about cologne

messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue button down shirt, while

Alec sat at our normal table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d have

be more serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped

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

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

lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let

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