Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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 safe.

endless and most of the doors are locked.

that’s

hallway.

to a dead end.

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on the wall and I find

the reflection.

but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows

I see a dark shape looming

face to

hand around my neck and lifts me

the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down around

our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me, his

with loathing. “How could I ever

be my mate? I despise your very

his hold on my neck until

coldly as he squeezes tighter and

is it.

to die-

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

ice cold.

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

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book I was reading has fallen aside, and the fire has burned down low in the

see Axel asleep in the armchair in

doors.

unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d been chasing me.

when I’d been sure I was about to die by his hand.

I untangle myself from

water, and then I’m not

don’t want to go into my bedroom

lock me in

sure as hell don’t want to go back to sleep.

mansion, trying to tell myself

doesn’t look like how it did in the dream,

definitely awake.

resisting the

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I turn on all the lights before I pour

cold water.

down, I realize how thirsty I

as I turn around, I find myself face to