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

corridor is endless and most

find one that’s

hallway.

I come to a dead end.

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on the wall and I

the reflection.

me, but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s

my shoulder, I see a dark shape

and come face to face with

and lifts me off

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

going to be our

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

ever be my mate? I despise your very

on my neck until

he squeezes tighter and tighter and

is it.

going to die-

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

ice cold.

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wildly around, expecting to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m in

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

Axel asleep in the armchair in front of the

doors.

fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d been

was about

as I untangle myself

a drink of water, and then I’m not sure what

into my bedroom

me in

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

the darkened mansion, trying to tell

look like how it did in the dream, and this time

definitely awake.

resisting the

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

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how

to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn around, I