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 of the doors are locked.

one that’s open, it

hallway.

to

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and I find

the reflection.

but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really inside.

my shoulder, I see a dark

and come face

wraps a hand around my neck and lifts me off my

the mirror, sending a cascade of

our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me, his

could I ever love

mate? I despise your

my neck until I

eyes glitter coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter

this is it.

to

my body drenched

ice cold.

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

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has fallen aside, and the fire has

in the armchair

doors.

and rip my gaze away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d been

sure I was about to die by

I untangle myself from the

and then I’m not sure what I’m

to go into my bedroom

lock me in again.

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

walk through the darkened mansion,

in the dream, and this

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the

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

cold water.

down, I realize how thirsty

but as

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