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

and most of the doors are locked.

one that’s open, it just leads

hallway.

come to a dead

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wall and I find myself frozen,

the reflection.

but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s

see a dark shape looming

face to

and lifts

the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down

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

with loathing. “How could I

be my mate? I despise

hold on my neck until

as he squeezes tighter

this is it.

going to

body drenched in sweat, but I’m

ice cold.

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

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book I was reading has fallen aside, and the fire

asleep in the armchair in

doors.

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

was about to die by his

and shaky as I untangle myself from the

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

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

to lock me in

sure as hell don’t want to

the darkened mansion, trying to tell myself

it did in the dream, and this time I’m

definitely awake.

resisting the urge to run.

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the kitchen, I turn on all the lights before I

cold water.

down, I realize

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