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

corridor is endless and most of the

when I do find one that’s open, it just

hallway.

to a

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on the wall and I find myself frozen,

the reflection.

I’m all wrong.

I’m monstrous. Grotesque.

shows what’s

my shoulder, I see a dark shape looming up.

and come face to face with

neck and lifts

my back into the mirror, sending a cascade of glass

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

with loathing. “How could I

be my mate? I

tightens his hold on my neck

he squeezes

this is

going to die-

body drenched

ice cold.

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

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

in the

doors.

and rip my gaze away, unable to shake the fear I’d felt in the dream when he’d

sure I was about to die

shaky as I untangle myself from

then I’m

my bedroom

to lock me

sure as hell don’t want to go back to

the darkened mansion, trying to tell myself

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

definitely awake.

faster, resisting the urge to run.

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I turn on all the lights before I pour myself a glass

cold water.

it down, I realize how thirsty I

pour myself a second helping, but as I turn

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