ログインOn Day 212 of the Ashfall, my fiancé Julian and best friend Tessa locked the shelter gates in my face. They took the convoy seats. They watched my seventeen-year-old brother bleed out in the dust. And as raiders tore through my defenses, a scarred rogue soldier died fighting to pull me from the wreckage. Death was not the end. I woke up seven days before the sky turned grey—armed with the mysterious Second Dawn Spatial Vault and a burning need for vengeance. This time, I’m not spending Julian’s fortune on a dream wedding. I’m draining his black card to stockpile thousands of tons of grain, fuel, and medical tech. And the dying soldier from my past life? I found him bleeding in an alley, stitched his wounds, and made him my deadlier half. Survival has a brutal price: every time I alter the timeline, the System erases a piece of my past memories. Worse, I discover the apocalypse was never an accident. Now, the ash is falling, the city has collapsed, and Julian is pounding on my steel blast door, screaming for a single cup of clean water. I won’t open the gate, Julian. Beg harder.
もっと見るThe tactical surplus depot on the east side of the river was tucked behind an abandoned rail depot—a low, windowless brick warehouse marked only by a rusted sign that read *HADLEY’S SURPLUS & LOGISTICS*.The air inside smelled of cosmoline, canvas, gun oil, and stale pipe tobacco.Behind a high counter lined with wire-reinforced glass stood Hadley—a burly, bearded veteran in his late fifties with a prosthetic left forearm and sharp, suspicious eyes that never left the front entrance."We're closing early," Hadley grunted, not looking up from an oily rifle bolt he was cleaning with a bronze brush. "Supply chains are backed up at the state line. If you're looking for camping propane or thermal socks, the shelves are bare.""We aren't looking for camping gear," Cade said, stepping out from behind my shoulder.Hadley’s hands stopped moving.He lifted his head, his gaze sweeping over Cade’s broad frame, locking onto the faded ball cap pulled low over the scarred eyebrow. A flicker of recog
Cade's POVI didn't use the stairs to check the perimeter. I used the shadows. By four that afternoon, the construction crew had packed their industrial hammer drills into a van and cleared out. The hallway smelled of fresh masonry dust, cured epoxy, and the sharp chemical tang of high-tensile silicone sealant. I walked down the eighteenth-floor corridor with Rook pacing silently at my heel. The door in front of Unit 18A wasn't residential hardware anymore. It was an armored blast bulkhead—cold-rolled structural steel, recessed flush with the concrete frame to prevent pry-bar leverage, secured by three synchronized commercial deadbolts. I laid my flat palm against the center panel. The acoustic resonance was dead. No hollow ringing. The core was packed with ceramic composite. Before I could reach for the brass knocker, the primary lock turned with a clean, hydraulic *thud*. The steel slab swung inward three inches. Nora stood in the gap. She was wearing faded denim, work boots, and an
Nora's POVBy nine the next morning, the eighteenth floor sounded like an industrial shipyard.Four heavy-duty construction contractors—paid double their standard union rate in untraceable cash—were drilling six-inch expansion anchors into the reinforced masonry around my apartment door.The original hollow-core wooden entrance had been hauled away. In its place stood a twelve-hundred-pound, bank-grade brushed steel security door fitted with three independent deadbolts, a heavy drop-down floor sweep, and an internal hardened manganese strike plate."I've been hanging doors for thirty years, lady," the site foreman said, wiping sweat from his forehead as his crew torqued the final bolt into the concrete header. "This frame could take a direct hit from an armored personnel carrier. Who are you expecting? A cartel?""Just bad weather," I said, handing him an envelope thick with hundred-dollar bills. "Make sure the balcony sliders are fitted with the same ballistic laminate by noon.""Mon
Nora's POVAt eleven-thirty that night, the basement was freezing.I slid through the heavy service door into the storage corridor, a thermos of hot broth and two heavy tactical flashlights tucked under my arm. Rook was on his feet the moment my boot hit the concrete, his tail giving two solid thumps against the chain-link mesh before he pressed his cold nose against the gate.Inside Cage 18B, Cade was already awake.He had tied off his wound with clean linen, pulling his black windbreaker on over his tactical vest. The color had returned to his face, though dark hollows still bruised the skin beneath his eyes. He sat on the milk crate, field-stripping his 9mm sidearm on a clean shop rag, inspecting the firing pin with the detached focus of an assassin."Stitches holding?" I asked, setting the thermos on the concrete."They'll hold." He snapped the slide back onto the frame with a sharp, metallic click, loaded the magazine, and slid the weapon into his waistband holster. His grey eyes


















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