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.

is endless and most of the doors are locked.

that’s open,

hallway.

I come to a dead

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the wall and I find

the reflection.

I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows

I see

spin, and come face to face with

hand around my neck and

the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering

going to be our fate,

burning with loathing. “How could I ever love you? How

you ever be my mate? I

my neck until I can’t

coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter

is it.

to die-

shivering, my body drenched in sweat,

ice cold.

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around, expecting to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m in

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aside, and the fire has burned down low in the hearth.

in the armchair in front

doors.

away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the

sure I was about

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself from

then I’m not sure what

bedroom in case Axel wakes

me in again.

hell don’t want to go back to sleep.

darkened mansion, trying to tell myself

it did in the dream, and this time I’m

definitely awake.

the

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all the lights before I pour myself

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how thirsty I am.

done, I decide to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn around, I find myself face to face with Axel.