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

most of the doors

I do find one that’s open,

hallway.

come to a dead end.

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mirror on the wall and I find myself frozen, staring into

the reflection.

I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really inside.

see a dark shape

spin, and come face

and lifts me off my feet, and

mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down

be our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me,

with loathing. “How could I ever love

my mate?

tightens his hold on my neck

squeezes tighter and tighter

is

to

wake up gasping, shivering, my body

ice cold.

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to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but

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the fire has burned down

asleep in the armchair in front of the French

doors.

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

been sure I was about to die by his hand.

feel sick and shaky as I

drink of water, and then I’m not sure

bedroom in

to lock me

as hell

walk through the darkened mansion,

like how it did in the

definitely awake.

walk faster, resisting the urge

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

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize

I’m done, I decide to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn around, I find myself face to

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