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

I’ll be

is endless and most of the doors are locked.

that’s open, it

hallway.

I come to

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on the wall and I find myself frozen, staring

the reflection.

me, but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really

see a dark

and come face

neck and lifts me

the mirror, sending a

going to be our fate, Emily,”

loathing. “How could I

you ever be my mate?

his hold on my neck until

squeezes tighter and tighter and I

is

to die-

wake up gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat,

ice cold.

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

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fallen aside, and the

in the armchair in front of the French

doors.

away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the

I’d been sure I was about

sick and shaky as I untangle myself

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

bedroom

to lock me in

hell don’t

mansion,

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

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the urge to

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I turn on all the lights before I

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how

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

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