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

be safe.

the corridor is endless and most

do find one that’s open, it just leads

hallway.

come to a dead end.

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the wall and I find myself frozen, staring into

the reflection.

me, but I’m

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really inside.

see a dark shape

and come face to face with

hand around my neck and lifts me

the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down

going to be our fate, Emily,” Axel tells

“How could I ever

mate? I despise your very existence.”

hold on my neck until I can’t

he squeezes

this is

to

body drenched in sweat, but I’m

ice cold.

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

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

over to see Axel asleep in the armchair in

doors.

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

when I’d been sure I was about

and shaky as I untangle myself from

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

into my bedroom in case

lock me in again.

I sure as hell don’t want to go back to sleep.

the darkened mansion,

it did in the dream,

definitely awake.

the urge to run.

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the kitchen, I turn on all the lights before I pour myself a glass of

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how thirsty I

I decide to pour myself a second helping, but as