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.

and most of the doors are

do find one that’s open, it just

hallway.

I come to a dead

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the wall and I find myself frozen,

the reflection.

I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s really inside.

shoulder, I see a dark shape looming

come face to face with Axel.

neck and lifts me off

a cascade of

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

burning with loathing. “How could I ever

my mate? I despise

his hold on my

squeezes tighter and tighter and

is it.

to die-

wake up gasping, shivering, my body drenched in

ice cold.

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

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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.

to shake the fear I’d felt in

when I’d been sure I was

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself from the

and then I’m

want to go into my bedroom in case Axel wakes up

me in

dream, I sure as hell don’t want to

darkened mansion,

like how it did in the dream, and this time

definitely awake.

resisting the urge to

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on all the lights before I pour

cold water.

it down, I realize

done, I decide to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn around, I find myself