Trapped with the Bastard Alpha

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LAURA'S POV“Father please!” I cried as the whip hit my back, ripping into my skin because of the thorns on it. I cried profusely and pleaded that my step father spare me but all my pleas fell on deaf ears.I lived with my mother after the death of my father and after a while, my mother remarried. My step father was the sweetest before he got married to my mother but he changed.As soon as he got into the house, he became the worst, he made sure he seized every opportunity to hit me but whenever my mother was around, he became nice and sweet.“I’ll make life unbearable for you until you plead for death.” He snarled as he hit me again. I couldn’t cry out loud because he threatened to make sure the number of my lashes increased if I cried out.Holding back my tears, I wondered what I'd done to make him hate me so much. I was so happy when he joined the family but now it seemed like I met my doom with him.The whip dropping to the back of my neck jolted me out of my thoughts, I was alrea