Chapter 327

I’m dreaming, on some level I know that.

But it doesn’t stop my body shaking with fear.

I’m running through the dark halls of the mansion.

Except it doesn’t look like home, it’s all sinister and wrong.

I can’t see Axel, but I know he’s chasing me.

And this time it’s not some game.

It’s not a simple battle of wills.

It’s life or death.

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And I know when he catches me, he’ll show no mercy.

He’ll kill me, and I won’t be able to stop him.

I keep running and running, but I’m not getting anywhere.

I can’t find a way out, and I can’t find anywhere to hide.

“Emily!” Axel shouts from somewhere deeper in the house, and I shudder at the hatred and malice in his tone. “I know what you

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are, Emily! You thought you could hide it. You thought you could fool me. But you were wrong. I am the slayer, and I’m coming for you.”

Tears start streaming down my face.

I don’t want to die.

I don’t want Axel to kill me.

I want him to accept who and what I am.

I want him to love me.

He’s my mate, he’s supposed to be mine.

He’s supposed to be my happy ending.

I need to get outside.

If I can make it out of the mansion, if I can shift and run, then I

I’ll be

is endless and most of the

when I do find one that’s open,

hallway.

I come to

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the wall and I find myself frozen,

the reflection.

I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s

my shoulder, I see a dark shape looming

face to face

and lifts me off my feet,

mirror, sending a cascade of glass

be our fate, Emily,” Axel

with loathing. “How could I ever

be my mate? I despise

on my neck until I can’t breathe.

glitter coldly as he squeezes tighter and

this is

going to die-

shivering, my body drenched in sweat, but I’m

ice cold.

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sinister corridors, but instead I’m in the library on the

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has fallen aside, and the fire has burned down low

in

doors.

and rip my gaze away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream

worse, when I’d been sure I was about to die by his

I untangle myself

of water, and then I’m not sure what I’m going to

bedroom in case Axel

me

hell don’t

walk through the darkened mansion, trying to tell

doesn’t look like how it did in the

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the

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lights before I pour

cold water.

I realize how

as

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