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Chapter 68 — Three Lines
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2026-06-24 10:00:21
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“If someone’s firing there,” Gabriel said, “they’re either already dead or about to be.”The words had barely settled when another gunshot cracked through the trees.Then another.Uneven. Panicked. Too fast.The convoy froze along the ridge road, tucked between dripping branches and the raw edge of the washed-out slope behind them. Mud clung to tires and boots. The creek below was distant now, replaced by the muffled violence ahead.Warren lifted a fist.No one moved.The forest listened with them.A shout rose somewhere beyond the trees, too far away to catch the words. It broke into a strangled cry, then vanished beneath a chorus of infected rasping.Evelyn’s stomach tightened.Living people. Not many, judging by the gunfire. Not calm, judging by the spacing. Someone ahead was firing because fear had reached their hands faster than sense.Warren turned toward her before she could speak. “No.”She looked at him. “You don’t know what I’m going to say.”“I do.”“Then you know I’m right
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Evelyn kept seeing the mark long after the bridge disappeared behind the trees.The scratches had been quick and deep, cut into the bridge post where no one would notice unless they looked back at the exact wrong moment. Or the exact right one. Three long lines angled north, the same silent instruction the Watcher had left before.Rowan sat beside her in the back seat, close enough that his shoulder brushed hers every time the truck rocked over the uneven road.“What did you see?” he asked.Evelyn looked toward the rear window. The bridge was gone now, swallowed by brush, creek noise, and distance.“Another mark.”Warren turned in the front passenger seat. “What mark?”Before Evelyn could decide how much to answer, Gabriel’s voice came from the open rear section of the lead truck.“Three lines?”The truck went very quiet.Caleb glanced at the mirror. “I’m sorry, the terrifying bridge man has context?”Gabriel braced one hand against the side rail as the truck rolled through mud. “I’ve
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 68 — Three Lines
The thought stayed with her as the camp beneath the bridge shifted from hidden shelter to hurried departure.Mrs. Carter took command of Henry with the ruthless confidence of a woman who considered death personally annoying. She had Gabriel hold the old man still while she cleaned and rewrapped the wound, then ordered Rowan to hold the lantern closer and stop “looming like a tragic pine tree.”Rowan adjusted the lantern.Gabriel looked briefly amused.Rowan did not.That, Evelyn thought, was probably the beginning of something.Not conflict exactly.Recognition.Men like Rowan and Gabriel did not need speeches to understand each other. They measured through movement. Through who stepped where. Who noticed what? Who flinched first? Who did not?Clara sat near the tarp opening while Nora helped secure her bandaged arm against her chest. Her face had more color now, though exhaustion still clung to her like a wet cloth. Owen remained close to Henry, pretending not to watch every hand tha
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 67 — Terms of Mercy
“But only if you take them with you.”Gabriel said it without raising his voice.He did not bargain like a man trying to win. He did not plead like someone afraid of refusal. He simply stood in front of Evelyn and Warren with mud drying on his pants, smoke caught in the seams of his jacket, and the full weight of three hidden lives placed between them.Behind him, the creek rushed beneath the bridge, loud enough to cover smaller sounds. Water struck rock in white flashes. The bridge groaned softly as the last vehicle settled on the far bank with the rest of the convoy.No one spoke at once.Warren looked toward the camp tucked beneath the bridge. His expression had tightened into that hard, careful mask Evelyn knew too well now. It was the face he wore when mercy started turning into math.“How many?” he asked.“Three,” Gabriel said. “A woman, her son, and her father.”“Infected?”“No.”“Fever?”“The old man.”Mrs. Carter appeared beside Evelyn as if summoned by the word. “Leg wound?”
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 66 — The Man at the Bridge
The side road had not been empty after all.Evelyn stood beside Caleb at the bend, staring at the thin gray thread of smoke rising beyond the trees. It curled upward in a steady line, too controlled to be accidental and too fresh to belong to a cold camp.Cook smoke.Someone was close enough to smell the fire if the wind shifted.Rowan moved ahead of her, rifle low. “Small fire.”Caleb squinted through the trees. “Hidden well.”“That worries me more.”“It should.” Caleb rubbed mud from his hands onto his pants and looked offended when it only made the problem worse. “Anyone who can hide a fire out here either knows what they’re doing or has survived long enough to become irritating.”Dean limped up behind them with one boot on and one sock wrapped in a plastic bag. “I vote for irritating. Competent people make me feel judged.”Mrs. Carter called from behind the truck, “You are judged constantly.”“See?” Dean said. “Hostile environment.”Warren approached with his rifle ready but point
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“A decision-maker.”The words stayed in the cold air even after the Watcher vanished.No one answered her.For a few seconds, no one seemed able to answer anything. The convoy remained caught between the blocked main road ahead and the narrow, brush-choked side road beside the broken mile marker. The Watcher had pointed them toward it, then disappeared as if the decision no longer required its presence.That bothered Evelyn more than if it had stayed.Staying would have meant pressure.Leaving meant confidence.Dean lowered the hatchet he had been holding halfway in the air. “I’m going to start clearing this before my brain has time to make additional comments.”“Good instinct,” Caleb said. “Rare for you.”“Rude, but fair.”Mark joined him near the entrance with another hatchet, though he kept glancing over his shoulder toward the trees. “If that thing comes back, I want someone to say something calm and useful.”Mrs. Carter leaned out of a truck window. “Run.”Mark paused. “I said ca
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