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.

the corridor is endless and most of the doors are

find one that’s open, it just leads to

hallway.

come to a

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on the wall and I

the reflection.

but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows

I see a dark shape looming up.

and come face to face

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

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

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

with loathing. “How could I ever

ever be my mate?

his hold on my neck

he squeezes tighter and tighter and

this is

going to die-

my body drenched in sweat,

ice cold.

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

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

Axel asleep in

doors.

away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d

worse, when I’d been sure I was

I

need a drink of water, and then I’m not

to go into my bedroom in case Axel wakes

me

as hell don’t want to go back to

through the darkened mansion, trying to

it did in the dream, and

definitely awake.

resisting the urge

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all the lights before I pour myself a glass

cold water.

I realize how thirsty I

as I turn around, I find myself