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

corridor is endless and most of

that’s open, it just

hallway.

come to a dead

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

the reflection.

but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really

my shoulder, I see a dark shape

come face

and lifts

sending a cascade of glass showering down

was always going to be our fate, Emily,”

burning with loathing. “How could I ever

you ever be my mate? I despise your

hold on my neck until

he squeezes tighter and tighter

is

going to die-

shivering, my body drenched

ice cold.

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to see shadowed, sinister corridors,

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

in

doors.

the fear I’d felt in

been sure I was about to die by his

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself from

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

want to go into my bedroom in case Axel wakes up

me in again.

dream, I sure as hell don’t want

walk through the darkened mansion, trying to

how it did in the dream, and this time I’m

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the

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I turn on all the lights before

cold water.

start drinking it down, I

but as

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