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Chapter 73 — Reduced Confidence
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MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 74 — The Overlook Road
They were not traveling toward safety.They were traveling toward the reason safety had failed.Evelyn carried that thought with her as the convoy pulled away from the ranger station.The rain had slowed to a fine mist, but the forest still dripped around them. Water fell from pine needles in soft, irregular taps. Mud sucked at tires. The old ranger station disappeared behind the trees piece by piece, first the broken fence, then the slanted roof, then the crooked green sign half-hidden by rain and branches.No one waved.There had been too many endings today for gestures.The new survivors had been folded into the convoy with the awkward efficiency of people who no longer had the luxury of proper introductions. Mara rode two vehicles back with one of her wounded. The others had been split between trucks wherever there was space. Gabriel returned to the open rear of the lead truck, one hand on the rail, eyes scanning the road ahead.Evelyn sat beside Rowan again.The folded map rested
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 73 — Reduced Confidence
The place people thought would save them was no longer just a destination.It was a threshold.And something had already reached it first.Evelyn stared at the map until the red grease-pencil lines seemed to move.Rain tapped against the ranger station roof in a steady, patient rhythm. Water slid through the broken window and collected in dark streaks along the wall. The room smelled of mildew, blood, wet paper, and old smoke. Outside, Mrs. Carter’s voice rose and fell as she bullied the wounded into staying alive.Inside, no one seemed eager to speak.Warren stood over the map with both hands braced against the desk. His expression had gone flat in a way Evelyn had only seen when he was forcing himself not to react too soon.“Frostfang doesn’t close gates to refugees,” he said.Mara leaned against the cabinet, arms wrapped around herself. “You said that already.”“I’m saying it because it’s true.”“I’m saying what happened.”The two statements sat across from each other like drawn kn
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 72 — What Frostfang Closed
The woman’s voice shook across the ruined clearing.Gabriel stood near the rusted generator with one hand still wrapped around the handle of his axe. Blood streaked his sleeve. Mud clung to his boots. The enhanced infected lay crumpled at his feet, its body slack now that the thing inside it had stopped giving orders.For a moment, he did not answer.The woman stepped farther from behind the truck's hood. She was thin, sharp-faced, and trembling so hard the rifle in her hands rattled softly against its sling. Her eyes stayed locked on Gabriel as if he were the only solid thing left in the clearing.“You came back,” she said again, quieter this time.Gabriel’s jaw tightened. “Mara.”That name changed the air.Rowan noticed.Evelyn noticed Rowan noticing.Dean, standing near the fence with his rifle still raised, glanced between them. “I’m getting the sense there’s a footnote here.”Mara let out a laugh that was not a laugh at all. It broke halfway through and turned into something too
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 71 — The Thing Giving Orders
“We save them by killing the thing giving orders.”Evelyn kept the enhanced infected centered through the narrow gap between branches.The rifle felt heavier than it should have.Not because of the weight.Because of what waited below.The enhanced infected crouched beside the rusted generator at the far edge of the ranger station clearing, head angled toward the trapped survivors as if listening to their fear take shape. Every shout, every panicked shot, every scrape of movement gave it something to use.A basic infected slammed into the side of the utility truck.The woman behind the hood fired.The enhanced one rasped.Two infected shifted immediately toward the sound.Evelyn’s finger tightened near the trigger.Rowan’s breath warmed the side of her face. “Branch in your line.”“I see it.”“Half inch left.”She adjusted.The sightline cleared, but only for a heartbeat. The enhanced infected moved with quick, twitching jerks, half-hidden by the generator and the trees behind it.Gab
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 70 — The Ranger Station
“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
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 69 — The Washed-Out Road
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 47 — The Road Ahead
The next morning, the map moved.Not physically.The paper remained exactly where it had been for days, spread across the center table in the main cabin beneath a lantern and a growing collection of notes.What changed was the way people looked at it.A week ago, survivors gathered around the map t
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 45 — The Last Sign
Caleb almost missed the transmission.The radio room sat at the top of the secondary watchtower, a cramped space barely large enough for a desk, a folding chair, and the collection of aging equipment survivors had managed to salvage over the past few months. Most days the room produced nothing usefu
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 43 — The Warning
The stranger arrived just before lunch.Evelyn was helping repair one of the storage sheds when shouting erupted near the front gate.Not panic.Not quite.The kind of sharp, urgent voices that made everyone stop what they were doing and look in the same direction.She dropped the hammer onto a nea
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. Th
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