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.

corridor is endless and most

do find one that’s open,

hallway.

I come to a

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the wall and I find

the reflection.

but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s

shoulder, I see a

spin, and come face to

neck and lifts me off my

sending a cascade of glass showering down around me.

our fate, Emily,” Axel

with loathing. “How could

you ever be my mate? I despise your very

his hold on my neck until

glitter coldly as he squeezes tighter and

is it.

to

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

ice cold.

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

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was reading has fallen aside, and the

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

doors.

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

been sure I was about to die by his

and shaky as I untangle

I’m not

to go into my bedroom

to lock me in

as hell don’t want

mansion, trying to tell myself

like how it did in the

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the urge to

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the kitchen, I turn on all the lights

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how

to pour myself a second helping, but as

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