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.

the corridor is endless and most of the doors are locked.

that’s open, it just leads to another

hallway.

come to a dead end.

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wall and I

the reflection.

I’m

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s

I see a

and come face

my neck and lifts me

smashes my back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass

be our fate,

“How could I ever love you? How

be my mate?

tightens his hold on my

glitter coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter

this is it.

to

gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat,

ice cold.

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to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m

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

asleep in the armchair in

doors.

my gaze away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt

sure I was about to die by his hand.

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself

a drink of water, and then I’m not

want to go into my bedroom in case Axel

lock me in again.

that dream, I sure as hell don’t want to

through the darkened mansion,

it did in the

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the urge

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I turn on all the lights before I pour myself a

cold water.

start drinking it down, I realize how thirsty I am.

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

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