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Chapter 25: Two Leaks
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2026-11-07 10:13:15
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Never Dead Twice: Reborn To Rule The Zombie Apocalypse Chapter 30: The Well
There were three trucks.I counted them from the top of the porch steps while Gideon dragged Priya and Theo down to the cellar and Marcus kicked open the barn door. Three dark pickups with their lights off, rolling up the lane with the patient murmur of men who believed the game was already won. They had poisoned the water, and any household without water breaks in a day.But Nadia hadn’t known the pump in the mine was working. That lie had held. The farm would have water. What I needed was time.“Row.” Gideon was at my shoulder, rifle low. “Eight men, maybe ten. Two on the first truck, four in the second. I can hold the gate.”“With what? A chain?”“With what I’ve got.” He didn’t smile. “Stay behind the wall. Please.”I looked down at my hands, at the ledger gleaming in the dark behind my eyes. Forty-one thousand liters of water. Thirteen thousand of diesel. Antibiotics, seeds, coats, rope, my grandmother’s boots. A whole world of supply, and not one item in it that could stop a man
Never Dead Twice: Reborn To Rule The Zombie Apocalypse Chapter 29: The Visitor
Nadia came up the repaired road two days later in a county cruiser, wearing the red coat again.I watched her from the porch with my hands wrapped around a mug and my heart doing something stupid. She climbed out slowly, balancing a covered dish in both hands. Deputy Okafor stayed in the driver’s seat with the window down, face carefully blank. Nadia stood in the yard and looked up at the farmhouse, the stone walls, the chained gate, the hay barn with Gideon’s spare rifle hung in the rafters, and I saw her count them.She counted the way a cashier counts a till. Quickly, without moving her lips.43 DAYS, said the corner of my eye.“I brought lasagna,” she said. “It’s terrible. I’ve been cooking for the sheriff’s office and nobody’s had the heart to tell me.”“That’s a bribe.”“It’s a peace offering. Bribes come with better wine.”It was such a perfectly Nadia thing to say that my throat closed. I stepped aside and let her in.I had decided on the plan the night before, in Priya’s note
Never Dead Twice: Reborn To Rule The Zombie Apocalypse Chapter 28: The Gavel
I came through the courtroom doors with dust in my hair and a knife in my boot, and the first thing I heard was a woman’s voice saying, “…so the court finds that in the absence of the temporary guardian—”“Wait!”The word cracked across the paneled room like a dropped tray. Forty heads turned. Judge Marguerite Lowe, a silver-haired woman with a mouth like a sealed envelope, lowered her gavel an inch and looked over her glasses at me.“Ms. Hale,” she said. “You are thirty-one minutes late.”“There was a rockslide.” I was gasping. Behind me Priya slid into the back row, Gideon at her shoulder like a quiet wall. “On the only road to the ridge. It was set deliberately. I have the relay in my car.”Sterling shot to his feet. “Your Honor, this is a transparent excuse for absence from a properly noticed—”“Mr. Sterling. Sit.”He sat.At the petitioner’s table, Dominic turned his head very slowly and looked at me. He wore the navy suit and the soft expensive smile, and at his elbow, small and
Never Dead Twice: Reborn To Rule The Zombie Apocalypse Chapter 27: The Road
The road went at seven in the morning, with a sound like a giant clearing his throat.I was on the porch with Mrs. Hadley’s coffee, and I felt it in the boards before I heard it, a long, low shudder, followed by a rumble that rolled up the ridge and rattled every pane in the house. By the time I reached the lane, a gray cloud of dust hung over the lower bend, and Gideon was running up from his cabin with his shirt half-buttoned.“Rockslide,” he panted. “Not the whole slope, just the cut below the second switchback.” He had a pair of binoculars around his neck. He didn’t need them. We could both see it: a wall of boulders and shattered shale, ten feet high, packed solid across the only road down the mountain.“Is it natural?”“It hasn’t rained in two days.” His mouth was a flat line. “I’d say that’s a no.”My phone buzzed. Finch, breathless in a way I had never heard him: Hearing advanced to 3 p.m. today. Judge Lowe, on motion of Mr. Sterling. Emergency docket. I am so sorry. I tried e
Never Dead Twice: Reborn To Rule The Zombie Apocalypse Chapter 26: The Ledger in My Head
I crept down the stairs with the hunting knife in my fist and my heart lodged in my throat.The floorboard creaked again, the third from the bottom, the one Mrs. Hadley said she’d been meaning to fix since 1987. Moonlight lay across the kitchen in a long pale bar. The kettle ticked on the cooling stove.Tessa sat at the table in her gray coat, both hands wrapped around a mug, her face turned toward the window.“You can put that down,” she said without looking round. “If I wanted to hurt anyone, I’d have brought a better knife.”I didn’t put it down. I leaned in the doorway and felt the calendar’s weight in the cool, quiet room behind my ribs. I had slid it into Storage the moment I left Theo’s bed, and every instinct I owned said tell no one.“Why are you up?”“I heard Theo’s door.” Now she turned. Without makeup she looked about nineteen again, and exhausted. “Is he all right?”“He’s asleep.”“Good.” She breathed out. “He talks, you know. At night. Most nights since you took us in.”
Never Dead Twice: Reborn To Rule The Zombie Apocalypse Chapter 25: Two Leaks
I didn’t hit him.I want that on the record, because every bone in my body wanted to. My hand was fisted and my nails were biting crescents into my palm. But Gideon’s shoulder was against mine, and Okafor was watching, and Priya’s phone was already recording in the window. Somewhere in the dark of my head, a very small, very cold voice said: he wants you to swing.“Deputy,” I said. “Is the order signed by a judge?”“Stamped and filed.”“Is it dated today?”Okafor glanced at the page. Her brow creased. “Thursday.”“Then it predates Mr. Finch’s emergency filing by one day.” I smiled at Sterling. “Which means my attorney’s motion has priority under the Family Code. I’d love for you to read Section Eleven out loud. It will take about a minute.”Sterling opened his mouth. Closed it. Looked at Dominic.“We can wait for morning,” Okafor said dryly. “Mr. Pryce. Mr. Sterling. Ma’am.” She tipped her head at the cruiser. “I’ll escort you down.”They went. Dominic looked back once, from the car,
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