Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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

do find one that’s open, it

hallway.

I come to a dead end.

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a mirror on the wall and I

the reflection.

but I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s

my shoulder, I see a dark shape looming up.

come face to face with Axel.

around my neck and lifts me off my feet,

my back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass showering down

our fate, Emily,” Axel tells me,

with loathing. “How could I ever love you? How

ever be my mate?

my neck until

he squeezes tighter and tighter

is it.

to

body drenched in sweat, but I’m

ice cold.

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around, expecting to see shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m in the library on the couch.

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has fallen aside, and the fire has burned down low in

see Axel asleep in the armchair in front of

doors.

away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when

was about to die by his hand.

shaky as I untangle myself from the blanket.

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

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

lock me in

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

darkened mansion,

how it did in the

definitely awake.

resisting the urge

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on all the lights before I pour myself a glass of

cold water.

I realize how thirsty I

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