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.

the corridor is endless and most

one that’s open,

hallway.

come to a dead end.

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a mirror on the wall and I find myself

the reflection.

me, but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really

then, over my shoulder, I see a dark shape

and come face to face with

and lifts me off

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

be our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me, his

“How could I ever love you? How

you ever be my mate? I

his hold on my neck until I can’t

squeezes tighter and tighter

this is

to

my body drenched in

ice cold.

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corridors, but instead I’m in

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and the

asleep in the armchair in front

doors.

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

worse, when I’d been sure I was about to die by his hand.

sick and shaky as I untangle myself from

then I’m not

into my bedroom in case Axel wakes

to lock me in

dream, I sure as hell don’t want to

through the darkened mansion, trying to tell

how it did in the dream, and

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the urge to

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turn on all the lights

cold water.

start drinking it down, I realize how thirsty

a second helping, but as I turn around, I