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.

most of the

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

hallway.

to a dead end.

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the wall and I find

the reflection.

I’m

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s

my shoulder, I see

come face to

my neck and lifts me off my feet, and

into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down around me.

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

with loathing. “How could

be my mate? I despise your

hold on my neck until

as he squeezes tighter and tighter and

this is

to

up gasping, shivering, my body

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

to see Axel asleep in

doors.

shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d been

sure I was about to die by his hand.

sick and shaky as I untangle

need a drink of water, and then I’m

bedroom in case

lock me in

hell don’t want to go back

through the darkened mansion, trying

it did in the dream, and this time

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the urge to

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turn on all the lights before

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how thirsty I am.

a second helping, but as I turn around, I find