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Dead Weight

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last update最後更新 : 2026-05-18
作者:  Dakota Quinn剛剛更新
語言: English
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Dark Romance

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Girl Power

Independent

Rebel

Warrior

Apocalypse

Betrayal

Post-apocalyptic

She trusted him with the end of the world. He left her for dead in it. When the zombie apocalypse hits, Maya Rodriguez already knows who she's going to survive with — and who she's going to survive for. What she doesn't know is that her boyfriend has other plans. Ones that don't include her. Abandoned, alone, and furious in a world that has just ended, Maya finds herself with an unlikely companion: LUS, a rogue AI life coach who is equal parts infuriating and inexplicably useful, and who may know more about how the outbreak started than he's letting on. Surviving the apocalypse turns out to be the easy part. Because the world Maya's navigating isn't just full of the undead. It's full of engineered soldiers — wolves in human skin, built by the same government programme that unleashed the virus. It's full of men who want to protect her, want to use her, want to earn her, and want to be forgiven by her. And it's full of one specific slow burn she has categorically refused to name. She's not the woman she was before the world ended. She's considerably more dangerous. ***A post-apocalyptic romance about survival, betrayal, rogue AI, and the specific problem of falling in love when everything is already on fire.

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Chapter 1 - End of the world. Also, Tuesday
The world should end on a Monday.There’s something honest about that. Brutal, yes, but clean. A Monday already has the emotional texture of damp socks and unpaid bills, so adding zombies feels less like a cosmic betrayal and more like management escalating a complaint.Unfortunately, the world chooses Thursday at 6:17 p.m., while Maya Rodriguez is standing barefoot in her kitchen, trying to decide whether expired sour cream is a negotiable concept.“It smells fine,” Dex says from behind her.Maya looks at him over her shoulder.Dex Hartley is twenty-nine, handsome in the irritating way of men who don’t know where the plunger lives, and currently holding a spoon like he’s about to conduct a scientific trial on dairy products from the back of the fridge.“That’s not a defence,” Maya says. “That’s what people say before poisoning guests.”“We don’t have guests.”“Exactly. It would just be us. A murder-suicide via nachos.”On the television, a news anchor says, “—reports of violent incid
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Chapter 2 - Survival is a team sport. Dex is not a team player.
People like to think survival is about bravery.Big choices. Hero moments. Running toward danger with a jaw set like a movie poster.In Maya's experience, survival is mostly about not doing stupid things in quick succession, which sounds easier than it is when the world has decided to become aggressively stupid all at once."Left," she says."Why left?" Dex pants behind her."Because right has screaming.""That could be normal screaming.""If you can confidently classify that as normal screaming, I would love to hear your criteria."Dex opens his mouth. Closes it. "…left is good," he says.They take the left.The street is narrower here, lined with shuttered shops and the kind of hopeful small businesses that usually sell handmade candles and financial despair. Everything is half-closed, half-broken, like the city couldn't decide whether to panic or pretend.Maya keeps moving. Her lungs burn. Her hands are still shaking from the door. Every sound feels aimed directly at her spine."Si
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Chapter 3 - Day three. The math is getting harder.
By day three, Maya has developed a close personal relationship with the inventory spreadsheet in her head.It has columns. It has projections. It has the grim emotional energy of a wedding seating plan prepared during a hostage situation."Breakfast," she says, placing two protein bars on the folding table like she's serving tiny beige steaks.Dex looks at his. "Half?""Half.""It's breakfast.""It's apocalypse breakfast. Very exclusive. Terrible reviews."He picks it up, frowning. "I'm hungry."Maya almost laughs. Not because it's funny. Because if she doesn't laugh, something else might come out, and it has teeth.They're both hungry. Hunger has become the third person in the room, sitting between them with its elbows on the table, breathing hot and sour into every conversation. Maya feels it behind her ribs. In her hands. In the new sharpness of her thoughts.Dex eats his half in two bites. Then reaches for the wrapper, licks a smear of chocolate from the inside, and looks away lik
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Chapter 4 - Triage
Better shelter is a myth people tell themselves so they don't notice they are still sleeping near a door that wants to become a mouth.The warehouse is better, though.Maya hates that.It sits at the edge of a residential neighbourhood, squat and ugly, with corrugated metal walls, one loading bay, two side exits, and the defeated smell of old cardboard. In its previous life it probably stored office chairs or printer toner or other items civilisation once considered worth transporting across cities.Now it stores Maya, Dex, twelve bottles of water, seven tins of food, one crowbar, and a level of tension that should technically require its own shelf."Homey," Dex says, looking around.Maya shines her flashlight over the cracked concrete floor. "Yes. Very industrial chic. All it needs is a rug and fewer ways to die."They found the place after leaving the community centre at dawn, when the dead gathered too thick near the front entrance and the back alley started making noises an alley
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Chapter 5 – Lies he tells. Excuses she makes.
By the end of the first week, time stops behaving like time.It stretches in the afternoons, thin and brittle, every hour a separate decision. Then it snaps forward without warning and suddenly it's night again and Maya is lying next to Dex, counting his breaths like they might run out.Today is an afternoon day.Dex leaves just after midday."I'll be quick," he says, already halfway down the ladder, already not looking at her properly."Where?""Just around. Found a place yesterday. Might have supplies."Maybe is doing a lot of work there. Maya watches it strain under the weight.She could ask more. She could say, Take me with you. She could say, Show me where. She could say, Stop disappearing like the walls aren't already thin enough."Don't push it," she says instead.Dex smiles, quick and easy, like this is normal. "I won't."He leaves. The door closes. The warehouse inhales his absence and settles into it like a body finding a familiar bruise.Emotional truth: she misses him the
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Chapter 6 - The supplies. The math.
By day nine, Maya stops calling it a feeling.Feelings are soft. Debatable. Open to interpretation.This is math.She spreads everything out on the floor. Not dramatically. Not in a panic. Just… systematically. Like laying out tools before a job you already understand but would prefer not to.Food first.Six tins become five when she counts them properly, because one of them is actually empty and placed back on the shelf like optimism in a suit.Protein bars: four and a half.Crackers: gone.Peanut butter: a scraped-out husk of former potential.Maya nods.She writes it down in her head. Then she moves to water. Still holding. Good.Fuel next.Two canisters should be two canisters. One is full. The other is lighter than it has any right to be.Maya lifts it. Shakes it gently. Listens.Half.Not used. Not by her. She knows what she’s used. She tracks that instinctively now, like breathing with numbers attached.Half missing.She sets it down carefully.Medicine.The plastic box clicks
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Chapter 7 - The other woman.
Following someone you love should feel romantic.Soft footsteps. Wind in the trees. The quiet certainty that you are moving toward something.Maya follows Dex across three streets and an empty car park and discovers that what it actually feels like is surveillance with better lighting and worse outcomes.He doesn’t notice her.That part is almost impressive.He moves the way he always does now when he leaves now: purposeful without being careful, like the world is dangerous in theory but not in a way that applies directly to him.Maya keeps her distance.Not hiding, exactly. Just… placing herself where she isn’t expected. Behind a burnt-out sedan. Inside the shadow of a collapsed awning. Pausing when he pauses, moving when he moves.She is good at this.That lands quietly. Not pride. Not relief. Just a fact she adds to the growing list of things she did not know about herself before everything broke.He heads toward Riley’s. Of course he does.The sign is half-hanging now, one side to
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Chapter 8 - What she would need if she were alone
There are two kinds of sorting.The kind where you clean. And the kind where you decide what you would take if you had to leave without saying goodbye.Maya does both.***Dex wakes up first for once, which feels like a glitch in the system. He climbs down from the mezzanine with quiet determination, like a man about to perform a meaningful act of contribution. Maya watches from above.He finds two tins. Opens them carefully. Warms them over the camping stove with the kind of focus that suggests he believes this is what effort looks like."Breakfast," he says when she comes down.Maya looks at the bowls. He's used more than she would have. Not disastrously. Not recklessly. Just generously. For them. For her."Fancy," she says.He grins. "Thought we could use it."Emotional truth: this is kind.Deflection: incredible. We're dying, but make it plated.Sharper truth: this costs more than he understands.She eats it anyway. He watches her, waiting for confirmation that this version of him
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Chapter 9 - The night he left
People always think the worst part is the moment something breaks.The shouting. The betrayal. The door slamming.They don’t account for the quiet.Maya wakes up because it’s too quiet. Not the outside quiet. That’s been wrong for days, a thin, stretched silence over something that used to be loud.This is different.This is the absence of a person.She knows it before she opens her eyes.Emotional truth: something is wrong.There’s no deflection.There isn’t time.She sits up.“Dex?”Nothing.The mezzanine is empty on his side. Blanket pushed back. No shape where he should be. No slow, even breathing she’s been counting like it meant something.Maya swings her legs over the edge. Climbs down.“Dex?”She says it louder this time. The warehouse gives it back to her, flat and uninterested.She already knows.Her body knows.That quiet, precise part of her that’s been doing the math for days has finally stopped pretending there might be another answer.Still, she checks. Of course she ch
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Chapter 10 - Alone
Hunger stops being dramatic after a while.It doesn't roar. It doesn't claw. It just sits there. Patient. Reasonable. Like a colleague waiting for you to finish talking so it can continue ruining your day.Maya eats half a tin of beans for breakfast."Gourmet," she tells the room.Her voice sounds wrong out loud. Too loud. Too present. Like she's interrupting something that wasn't expecting her to speak.She swallows. Tries again, quieter. "Five stars. Would die again."Better. That lands closer to where she lives now.She eats slowly. Counts bites without meaning to. Measures the distance between now and later in mouthfuls and swallows and the small precise way she scrapes the inside of the tin like she's negotiating with it. Half now. Half later. Later is doing a lot of work.She rinses the tin with a capful of water. Drinks that too. Waste is a moral failing now. Possibly a capital one.***Day eleven. Or twelve. Time has gone soft around the edges again. Maya marks it by inventory
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