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.

1/6

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

Chapter 327

2/6

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 of the doors

find one that’s open, it just leads

hallway.

to a dead

3/6

Chapter 327

and I find myself frozen, staring into

the reflection.

I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really inside.

see a dark

spin, and come face to face

a hand around my neck and lifts me off my feet,

mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering

our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me, his

burning with loathing. “How could

be my mate? I despise your very existence.”

on my neck until I

he squeezes tighter and

is

going to die-

up gasping, shivering, my body

ice cold.

Chapter 327

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

4/6

aside, and the fire has burned down

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

doors.

rip my gaze away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when

was about to die by his hand.

sick and shaky as I untangle myself from the

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

my bedroom in case Axel wakes up

me in again.

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

walk through the darkened mansion, trying to tell myself

doesn’t look like how it did in the dream, and

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the urge

Chapter 327

5/6

on all the lights before I pour myself a

cold water.

down, I

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

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255