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.

endless and most

do find one that’s

hallway.

I come to a dead end.

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a mirror on the wall and I find myself

the reflection.

but I’m

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really inside.

then, over my shoulder, I see a dark shape

come face to

hand around my neck and lifts me off my feet,

my back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass

going to be our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me,

loathing. “How could I ever love you?

mate? I

on my neck until I

glitter coldly as he squeezes tighter

is

to die-

my body

ice cold.

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

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

look over to see Axel asleep in the armchair in front of

doors.

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

was about

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself from the

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

want to go into my bedroom

to lock me in again.

I sure as hell don’t want to go back to sleep.

the darkened mansion, trying to

how it did in the dream,

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the

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kitchen, I turn on all the lights before I pour myself

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how

decide to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn around,

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