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

is endless and most of the doors

that’s open, it just leads to another

hallway.

I come to a dead end.

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a mirror on the wall and

the reflection.

me, but I’m

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really inside.

I see a dark shape looming up.

spin, and come face to face with Axel.

neck and lifts me

into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass

going to be our fate, Emily,”

with loathing. “How could I

ever be my mate? I despise your

my

as he squeezes tighter and tighter and

this is

going to

gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat, but I’m

ice cold.

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wildly around, expecting to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but

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

over to see Axel asleep in the armchair in front of

doors.

to shake the fear I’d felt in the

sure I was

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself from

then I’m not sure what I’m going to do.

my bedroom in case Axel wakes up

me in again.

sure as hell don’t want to

walk through the darkened mansion, trying

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

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the urge to run.

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the lights before I pour myself

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize

I’m done, I decide to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn around, I find myself face to face with Axel.