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

endless and most of the

do find one that’s open, it just

hallway.

I come to a dead

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on the wall and I

the reflection.

I’m

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really

over my shoulder, I see a dark shape

face to face with

and lifts

the mirror, sending a

to be our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me, his

“How could

ever be my mate? I despise your

tightens his hold on my neck until I can’t breathe.

coldly as he squeezes tighter and

this is

to die-

my body drenched in sweat, but

ice cold.

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

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the fire has burned down low in the

over to see Axel asleep in the armchair in front

doors.

fear I’d felt in the dream when

sure I was about to die by his

I untangle myself from the blanket.

then I’m

to go into my bedroom

to lock me in again.

dream, I sure as hell don’t

darkened mansion,

look like how it did in the dream, and this time

definitely awake.

the

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kitchen, I turn on all the lights before I pour myself a glass of

cold water.

start drinking it down, I realize how thirsty I

a second helping, but as I turn

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