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 of the doors are locked.

I do find one that’s open, it

hallway.

I come to

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on the wall and I find myself

the reflection.

me, but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows

over my shoulder, I see a dark

spin, and come face

hand around my neck and lifts me off

a cascade of

our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me,

could

be my mate? I despise your very

my neck

coldly as he squeezes tighter and tighter

is it.

going to die-

gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat, but

ice cold.

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expecting to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m in

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fallen aside, and the fire has burned

asleep in the armchair in front of the

doors.

unable to shake the fear I’d felt

I was about to die

as I untangle myself

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

bedroom in

to lock me in again.

dream, I sure as hell don’t

mansion, trying to

how it did in the dream,

definitely awake.

the urge to

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the lights before I

cold water.

it down, I

a second helping, but as I turn around, I find myself face to face with Axel.

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