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

do find one that’s open,

hallway.

come to

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

the reflection.

I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows

I see a

spin, and come face to face

and

mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down

always going to be our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me, his

with loathing. “How could I ever love

mate? I despise your very

my neck

squeezes

is it.

to

body drenched in sweat, but

ice cold.

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corridors, but instead I’m in the library on the couch.

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the fire has burned down

asleep in the armchair in front of the French

doors.

shudder and rip my gaze away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when

was about to

as I

then I’m

my bedroom in

me in again.

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

mansion, trying to tell myself

look like how it did in the

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the urge to run.

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on all the lights before I pour myself a glass

cold water.

I

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

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