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

that’s open,

hallway.

I come to a dead

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and I find myself frozen,

the reflection.

but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows

see a dark

come face to

my neck and lifts

back into the mirror, sending a cascade

our

burning with loathing. “How could I ever love you?

be my mate? I despise your very existence.”

my neck until I can’t breathe.

eyes glitter coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter

this is it.

going to die-

body drenched

ice cold.

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

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the fire

Axel asleep in the armchair in front

doors.

to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d been chasing me.

sure I was about

and shaky as I untangle

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

into my bedroom in case Axel wakes up and

me in again.

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

through the darkened mansion,

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

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the urge to

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on all the lights before I

cold water.

it down, I realize how

as I

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