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

I’ll be safe.

is endless and most of the doors are locked.

one that’s

hallway.

I come to a

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

the reflection.

me, but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

now shows what’s really

over my shoulder, I see a dark shape looming up.

spin, and come face to

and lifts me off

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

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

with loathing. “How could

be my mate? I despise your very

his hold on my neck until

squeezes tighter and tighter

this is it.

to

wake up gasping, shivering, my body drenched in sweat, but

ice cold.

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

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was reading has fallen aside, and the fire

to see Axel asleep in the armchair in front of

doors.

fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d been chasing

worse, when I’d been sure I was about to die by his

sick and shaky as I untangle myself from the

I’m not

to go into my bedroom in case

lock me in

as hell don’t want to go back to

mansion, trying to

doesn’t look like how it did in the dream, and this

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the

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

cold water.

I start drinking it down, I realize

second helping, but as

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