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

when I do find one that’s open,

hallway.

I come to a

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a mirror on the wall and I find myself

the reflection.

I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s really inside.

then, over my shoulder, I see

and come face

and lifts me off

a cascade of glass showering down around me.

always going to be our fate, Emily,”

could I ever love you?

mate? I despise your very existence.”

on my neck

eyes glitter coldly as he squeezes

is it.

going to

gasping, shivering, my body drenched in

ice cold.

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

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has fallen aside, and the fire has burned down

see Axel asleep in the armchair in front

doors.

away, unable to shake the fear I’d

was about

as I untangle myself from

I’m not sure what I’m going to do.

don’t want to go into my bedroom in case Axel wakes

me in

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

darkened mansion, trying to tell myself

look like how it did in the dream, and this

definitely awake.

resisting the urge to

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all the lights before I pour myself

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how

a second helping, but as I

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