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 just leads

hallway.

to a

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a mirror on the wall and I

the reflection.

me, but I’m

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s really

I see

face to face with

my neck and lifts me off my feet,

smashes my back into the mirror, sending a cascade

be our fate,

could

mate? I despise your very existence.”

hold on my neck until

squeezes tighter and tighter and

this is it.

going to

shivering, my body drenched

ice cold.

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

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has fallen aside, and the

Axel asleep in the

doors.

shake the fear I’d felt

been sure I was about to die by

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself from the

and then I’m

to go into my bedroom in

me in again.

hell don’t want to

through the darkened mansion, trying to

doesn’t look like how it did in the dream, and this time I’m

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the urge to run.

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the kitchen, I turn on all the lights before

cold water.

down, I realize how thirsty I

I decide to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn around, I find myself face to face with Axel.

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