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

breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him

entire body felt cold with fear. He was

at the disgusting smell of stale beer

and I gritted my teeth against the

bringing my knee up in between

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

through the tears that had sprung up in

down on my bed and let a few tears trail

than others, but it would

lost hope that Melissa would treat me like her own

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

into the shower. The steaming water hid

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

out of the shower feeling completely exhausted,

a few hours of restless sleep, I woke up and changed

had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an off-shoulder long sleeve

my porcelain skin and

was worried

the twins’ hair were tousled and had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue

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

and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down in the seat

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

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

clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of

answer Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a

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