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

endless and most of the doors

do find one that’s

hallway.

come to a dead end.

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mirror on the wall and

the reflection.

but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really inside.

shoulder, I see

come face to face with

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

back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass

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

could I ever love

you ever be my mate? I

his hold on my

coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter and

this is

to die-

up gasping, shivering, my body

ice cold.

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corridors,

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fallen aside, and the fire has

over to see Axel asleep in the

doors.

rip my gaze away, unable to shake the fear

been sure I was about to die by his hand.

shaky as I untangle myself from

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

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

to lock me in again.

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

walk through the darkened mansion, trying to tell

doesn’t look like how it did in

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the urge to

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I turn on all the lights before I pour myself a glass

cold water.

start drinking it down, I realize how thirsty I

as I turn around, I find myself face to

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