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

and most of

do find one that’s

hallway.

I come to a dead

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mirror on the wall and I find myself

the reflection.

but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows what’s really

my shoulder, I see

face

my neck and lifts me off my feet, and

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

to be our fate, Emily,”

could

ever be my mate? I

on my neck

as he squeezes

is

to

my body

ice cold.

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shadowed, sinister corridors, but instead I’m in the library on the

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book I was reading has fallen aside, and the fire has burned down low in the hearth.

in the armchair in

doors.

to shake the fear I’d felt

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

shaky as I untangle

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

bedroom in case Axel wakes up

lock me

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

mansion, trying

how it did in the dream, and this time I’m

definitely awake.

resisting the urge to run.

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on all the lights before I pour myself

cold water.

I start drinking it down, I realize how

pour myself a second helping, but as I

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