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

is endless and most

find one that’s

hallway.

to

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and I find myself frozen,

the reflection.

me, but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s

see a dark shape looming up.

come face

around my neck and lifts me off

smashes my back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down

going to be our fate, Emily,”

“How could I

you ever be my mate? I despise

hold on my neck until

he squeezes tighter and tighter and

is

going to

up gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat, but I’m

ice cold.

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around, expecting to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m in the library on the couch.

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reading has fallen aside, and the fire has burned down low in the hearth.

over to see Axel asleep in the armchair

doors.

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

sure I was about to die by his hand.

sick and shaky as I untangle myself from

then I’m not

don’t want to go into my bedroom in case

to lock me in

hell don’t want to go back to sleep.

through the darkened mansion, trying to tell myself

like how it did in the

definitely awake.

the urge to run.

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I turn on all the lights before

cold water.

it down, I realize how thirsty I am.

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