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.

endless and most of the doors are

one that’s open, it just leads

hallway.

to a

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on the wall and I find

the reflection.

but I’m all

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

outside now shows

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

spin, and come face to face with Axel.

and lifts

a

our fate, Emily,” Axel tells

loathing. “How could

be my mate? I

tightens his hold on my

squeezes tighter and tighter

is it.

to die-

body

ice cold.

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

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aside, and the fire has burned

over to see Axel asleep in the armchair in front of the French

doors.

the fear I’d felt in the

sure I was about to die by his hand.

feel sick and shaky as I untangle myself from the

and then I’m not

bedroom in case Axel

to lock me in again.

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

walk through the darkened mansion, trying to

did in the dream, and this time I’m

definitely awake.

resisting the urge to run.

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the lights before I

cold water.

it down, I realize how thirsty I

but as I turn around, I

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