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.

most of the doors are locked.

one that’s open, it just

hallway.

to

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wall and I

the reflection.

me, but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really inside.

then, over my shoulder, I see a dark shape

face to face with

and lifts

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

always going to be our fate,

loathing. “How could I ever

ever be my mate? I despise your very

my neck

he squeezes tighter and tighter

is it.

to

shivering, my body drenched in sweat, but

ice cold.

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see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m in the library on the couch.

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has fallen aside, and the fire has burned

in

doors.

the fear I’d felt in the dream

I was about

I untangle myself from

then I’m not

don’t want to go into my bedroom in case Axel wakes up and

to lock me

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

mansion, trying

look like how it did in the dream,

definitely awake.

resisting the

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lights

cold water.

start drinking it down, I realize how thirsty

I’m done, I decide to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn

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