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

most of

when I do find one that’s open, it just leads to another

hallway.

to a dead end.

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

the reflection.

but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really inside.

I see

come face

a hand around my neck and lifts me off

mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down around me.

going to be our fate, Emily,” Axel

“How could I ever love you?

be my mate? I despise your very existence.”

on my

coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter and I

is it.

going to die-

shivering, my body drenched

ice cold.

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

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was reading has fallen aside, and the fire has

to see Axel asleep in

doors.

fear I’d felt in the

was about to

as I untangle myself

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

go into my bedroom in case Axel wakes up

lock me in again.

that dream, I sure as hell don’t want

mansion, trying

in the dream, and

definitely awake.

the

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on all the lights

cold water.

down, I

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

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