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

endless and most

one that’s open, it just leads to another

hallway.

to

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

the reflection.

me, but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really inside.

see a

come face to face

my neck and lifts me off my feet,

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

our fate, Emily,” Axel tells

could

mate? I despise your very existence.”

on my neck until

coldly as he squeezes tighter and

this is

going to

gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat, but

ice cold.

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

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has fallen aside, and the fire

Axel asleep in the armchair in

doors.

to shake the fear I’d

I was about to die

I untangle myself from the blanket.

and then I’m not sure what I’m going to do.

into my bedroom in

me

as hell don’t

mansion, trying to tell myself

like how it did in the dream, and

definitely awake.

the

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kitchen, I turn on all the lights before

cold water.

I

but as I turn

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