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

and most

when I do find one that’s open,

hallway.

to a

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and

the reflection.

me, but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s

over my shoulder, I see a dark shape looming up.

face to face with Axel.

a hand around my neck and lifts me off my feet,

into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down

going to be our fate, Emily,” Axel tells

loathing. “How could I

you ever be my mate? I despise your very

hold on my neck until I

eyes glitter coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter

is

going to

up gasping, shivering, my body drenched in

ice cold.

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corridors, but

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

to see Axel asleep in the

doors.

shake the fear

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

sick and shaky as I

of water, and then I’m not

into my bedroom in case

to lock me

hell don’t want to

walk through the darkened mansion,

doesn’t look like how it did in the dream, and this

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the urge to run.

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turn on all the lights before

cold water.

down, I realize how thirsty I am.

helping, but as I turn

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