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.

is endless and most of the

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

hallway.

come to a dead

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the wall and I find myself frozen, staring into

the reflection.

I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s really inside.

then, over my shoulder, I see a dark shape

come face

and

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

going to be our fate, Emily,” Axel

“How could I ever

ever be my mate? I despise

his hold on my

glitter coldly as he squeezes tighter

is it.

going to die-

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

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was reading has fallen aside, and the

to see Axel asleep in the

doors.

my gaze away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d been

was about to die by his hand.

and shaky as I

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

want to go into my bedroom in case Axel wakes up and

lock me

hell don’t want

mansion, trying

did in the dream, and

definitely awake.

the

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on all the lights before I

cold water.

I start drinking it down, I realize

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

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