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

is endless and most

do find one that’s open, it just

hallway.

to a dead

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and I

the reflection.

me, but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows

then, over my shoulder, I see

come face to

a hand around my neck and lifts me

a cascade of glass showering down around me.

be our

loathing. “How could I ever love you?

you ever be my mate?

my neck until

eyes glitter coldly as he squeezes

is it.

to die-

gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat,

ice cold.

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corridors, but instead I’m in

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I was reading has fallen aside, and the fire has burned down

look over to see Axel asleep in the armchair in front of the

doors.

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

sure I was about to

as I untangle myself from the blanket.

need a drink of water, and then I’m

to go into my bedroom in case Axel wakes

me in again.

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

through the darkened mansion, trying to tell myself

how it did in

definitely awake.

resisting the urge

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kitchen, I turn on all the lights before I pour myself a glass of

cold water.

start drinking it down, I realize how

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

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