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

be

and most of the doors are locked.

find one that’s open, it

hallway.

to a

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wall and I find myself

the reflection.

but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really

then, over my shoulder, I see a dark shape looming

spin, and come face to

neck and lifts

smashes my back into the mirror, sending a

our fate,

loathing. “How could I

you ever be my mate?

his hold on my neck until I can’t

squeezes tighter

is

going to die-

shivering, my body drenched in

ice cold.

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

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

look over to see Axel asleep in the armchair in front

doors.

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

I was

sick and shaky as I

a drink of water, and then I’m not sure what I’m going to do.

don’t want to go into my bedroom in

me in

after that dream, I sure as hell don’t want to go back to

the darkened mansion,

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

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the

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I turn on all the lights before I

cold water.

it down, I realize how thirsty I am.

myself a second helping, but as I turn

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