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

the corridor is endless and most of

that’s open, it just leads to another

hallway.

to a dead

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a mirror on the wall and I find myself

the reflection.

me, but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really

my shoulder, I see a dark shape looming up.

come face to

neck and lifts me off my

back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering

going to be our fate, Emily,”

with loathing. “How could I ever love you? How

be my mate? I despise your

my neck until I can’t breathe.

he squeezes

is

to die-

gasping, shivering, my body

ice cold.

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glance wildly around, expecting to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead

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

see Axel asleep in the armchair

doors.

the fear

was about to die by his hand.

feel sick and shaky as I untangle

water, and then I’m not sure what I’m going

want to go into my bedroom

lock me in

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

darkened mansion, trying

like how it did in the

definitely awake.

resisting the urge to

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turn on all the lights

cold water.

it down, I realize how thirsty I am.

as I turn around, I find myself face to

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