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 safe.

corridor is endless and most

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

hallway.

I come to

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wall and I find

the reflection.

but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows

I see

face to face with Axel.

wraps a hand around my neck and lifts me off my feet, and

mirror, sending a

be our fate,

burning with loathing. “How could I

my mate? I

on my

he squeezes tighter and tighter

this is it.

going to die-

shivering, my body drenched

ice cold.

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corridors, but instead

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has fallen aside, and the fire has burned

in the armchair in front of the

doors.

unable to shake the fear I’d felt in

was about to die by his hand.

as I

water, and then I’m not sure what I’m

go into my bedroom in case Axel

to lock me

sure as hell don’t want to go back to

the darkened mansion, trying to

how it did in

definitely awake.

the

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

cold water.

drinking it down, I realize how thirsty I am.

to pour myself a second helping, but as I turn

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