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

be safe.

is endless and most of the doors are locked.

do find one that’s open, it just leads to

hallway.

come to a

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on the wall and I find

the reflection.

but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s really

I see a dark shape looming up.

face

hand around my neck and

back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down around me.

was always going to be our fate, Emily,” Axel tells

with loathing. “How could I ever love you?

you ever be my mate? I despise your very

hold on my neck until I can’t

squeezes tighter and tighter and I

this is it.

going to die-

my body drenched

ice cold.

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wildly around, expecting to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m in the library on the couch.

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

see Axel asleep in the armchair in front of

doors.

shudder and rip my gaze away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d been chasing

worse, when I’d been sure I was about to die by his

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself from the blanket.

then I’m not sure what

my bedroom in case Axel wakes

to lock me in again.

sure as hell don’t want to go back to

through the darkened mansion, trying

it did in the dream,

definitely awake.

resisting the

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all the lights before I pour myself a glass

cold water.

I start drinking it down, I realize how

myself a second helping, but as I turn around, I