Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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 safe.

is endless and most of the

when I do find one that’s open, it just leads

hallway.

I come to a dead end.

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and I find myself frozen, staring into

the reflection.

I’m

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really

shoulder, I see a dark shape

face to

hand around my neck and lifts

smashes my back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass

be our fate,

with loathing. “How could I ever

be my mate? I despise your very

my neck until

coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter and

is it.

going to die-

gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat, but

ice cold.

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

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book I was reading has fallen aside, and the fire has burned

Axel asleep in the armchair

doors.

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

I was about to die by his

as I untangle myself from

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

my bedroom in case Axel wakes up and

me in again.

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

walk through the darkened mansion,

in the dream, and this time I’m

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the urge

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turn on all the lights before I pour

cold water.

it down, I realize how thirsty

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