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Chapter 41 — Fault Lines
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2026-06-05 03:21:58
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MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 41 — Fault Lines
The argument started over breakfast. Like most important arguments, it wasn't actually about breakfast. It was about fear.The communal stove sat in the center of the main cabin while survivors gathered with metal bowls of oatmeal that somehow managed to be both watery and thick at the same time. The room smelled faintly of wood smoke, damp clothing, and exhaustion.Nobody looked happy. Food shortages had a way of making every conversation shorter.Mark was the first to say it. "We should leave."The room immediately went quiet. Warren looked up from his bowl. "Leave for where?"Mark hesitated. That was the problem. Nobody had a good answer. Still, the question remained.Caleb leaned back in his chair. "The tower got hit.""We survived.""Barely."Warren's expression hardened. "We're still here."Mrs. Carter lowered her spoon. "How many more attacks can we survive?"Nobody answered immediately, because everyone had been asking themselves the same thing.The silence stretched across the
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 40 — The Map
The day after Eli's burial felt strangely quiet. Not peaceful. Just quieter. The kind of quiet that settled over a place after something important had been taken from it.The compound moved slower than usual. Repairs still needed to be done, meals still needed to be cooked, and fences still needed to be reinforced. Nobody shared the same urgency as before the attack.Exhaustion had finally caught up with them. Even the weather seemed tired.Gray clouds drifted over the ridge while patches of fog clung stubbornly to the lower slopes. The mountains beyond the tower faded in and out of view throughout the morning.Evelyn spent most of it helping Caleb repair one of the damaged sections of the fence. Neither of them talked much. The silence wasn't uncomfortable. They were both thinking about Eli.Eventually, Caleb set down his hammer and stared out across the ridge. "He would've hated this."Evelyn glanced over. "The weather?""The moping." A faint smile appeared on Caleb's face."He alwa
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 39 — Accusations
Warren waited until after Eli was buried. That was the decent thing. Or maybe just the strategic one.The grave was shallow, dug beneath a stand of cedars outside the western fence, where the ground was soft enough to break with shovels. Caleb said a few words, though not many. His voice kept catching in places he clearly hated, and by the end, Nora was crying quietly while Lily held Evelyn’s hand without asking first.Evelyn didn’t pull away. She should have. Attachment made people vulnerable. Her last life had taught her that with teeth, blood, and locked doors. But Lily’s fingers were small and cold around hers, and Evelyn could not make herself let go.Rowan stood on her other side, close enough that his sleeve brushed hers whenever the wind shifted.No one spoke as they returned to the compound. Grief followed them through the gate. So did fear.By afternoon, Warren called Evelyn into the main cabin. Not a meeting. Not officially.But the second Caleb looked up from the supply ta
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 38 — Aftermath
By morning, the tower still stood. That should have felt like victory.Instead, the compound moved under a silence so heavy it seemed to press the fog closer to the ground. Survivors stepped around broken fencing, blood-darkened mud, and discarded weapons without speaking much. The eastern perimeter was ruined in three places, the generator shed wall was dented inward, and every exposed surface smelled faintly of smoke, wet wood, and death.Eli’s body lay wrapped in a blanket near the main cabin. Caleb sat beside him on the porch steps, elbows on his knees, eyes fixed on nothing. No one asked him to move.Nora kept Lily inside the cabin, though the little girl had woken once before dawn and asked for Eli in a voice that made the entire room go quiet. Nora had held her through the answer. Evelyn had stayed near the window, pretending to watch the treeline, because she didn’t know what else to do with the look on Lily’s face.Outside, Warren started assigning cleanup crews. His voice ca
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 37 — Eli
For a moment, nobody could reach him.The infected hit Eli hard enough to carry both of them off the porch and into the mud. Rain exploded around the impact while bodies shoved past each other in the chaos surrounding the cabin. Nora screamed his name, and Evelyn found herself moving before she consciously decided to.People stumbled into her path.Someone fired a rifle too close to her left ear.An infected slammed against the cabin wall and slid back into the mud.The entire compound had narrowed into noise and movement.Then Rowan got there.He appeared through the confusion with the same unnerving focus he always carried into dangerous situations. One second he was crossing the yard. The next, his knife was buried in the infected's skull.The body collapsed.For an instant, Eli didn't move.Evelyn's stomach dropped.Then he rolled onto his side and coughed hard enough to spit mud into the rain.Alive.Caleb reached him first.Together, he and Rowan hauled Eli upright and half-carri
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 36 — Breach
The attack reached the fence before anyone finished deciding what to do about it. One moment, the infected were only shapes moving through the fog below the ridge. The next, they slammed into the eastern perimeter hard enough to shake the entire structure.Metal screamed beneath the impact. The rope anchors snapped tight, dragging against the stump Rowan had secured them to days before. Mud shifted beneath the support posts, and the whole fence bowed inward with a low, awful groan that carried across the compound.People ran from the cabins. Some toward weapons, some toward the fence, some only far enough to realize they had no idea where they were supposed to go.The difference between panic and survival was usually about five seconds.The tower had already lost three of them.“Eastern side!” Caleb shouted. His voice cut through the rain better than Warren’s did.Lantern light bounced across the muddy yard as survivors scrambled for spears, rifles, and tools that had become weapons b
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