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Chapter 75

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The water treatment plant on the northern edge of the sovereign zone was a rusted, cathedral-like structure of pipes and catwalks. It was supposed to be a routine inspection. Maya and Jaxie were three blocks outside the perimeter, checking the pressure valves on the secondary municipal intake.

Maya was in the lead, her Mk 18 raised, sweeping the shadows with practiced, mechanical efficiency. Jaxie was trailing five paces behind, clutching a diagnostic tablet, complaining about the cold."I'm ju
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  • Reborn Before Doomsday: The Ex-Military Wife’s Revenge   Chapter 96

    The smell of the aftermath was a distinct, ugly cocktail. It was the sharp, metallic tang of vaporized blood, the acrid bite of spent cordite, and the heavy, industrial stench of the arc welder Cole had used to seal the eastern breach. Beneath it all lay the faint, sweet rot of the ice-zombies thawing just outside the perimeter walls. I stood in the center of the loading bay, a mug of black coffee warming my bruised hands. The warehouse was quiet. Not the tense, coiled silence of a siege, but the deep, exhausted quiet of a survivor catching its breath. The internal temperature had climbed back to a steady sixty-five degrees. The CBRN scrubbers hummed their steady, reassuring rhythm. The diesel generators purred in the sub-basement. The fortress had been held. We had held.I walked slowly toward the main terminal in the command center, my boots crunching faintly on the residual debris that Tyler hadn’t yet swept up. Every muscle in my body ached. The spatial backlash from teleporti

  • Reborn Before Doomsday: The Ex-Military Wife’s Revenge   Chapter 95

    The migraine was a physical entity, a rusted nail driven through my left temple. Maya's hands were steady as she cleaned the split skin on my cheekbone with an alcohol swab. The sting was sharp, grounding, pulling me back from the edge of the spatial void's backlash. "Hold still," she murmured, applying a butterfly closure. "You're lucky he didn't take your eye out.""I'm always lucky," I rasped, my voice sounding like it belonged to someone who'd been swallowing glass. Across the command center, Cole was already in his plate carrier, a heavy-duty arc welder strapped to his back. Tyler was beside him, hauling a massive, prefabricated steel plate we'd kept in reserve for exactly this kind of catastrophic breach. "Inner temp is down to forty-eight degrees and dropping," Cole reported, not looking back. "The CBRN scrubbers are working overtime, but the heat loss through that hole is massive. We need to seal it now.""Do it," I said, swinging my legs off the cot. My knees popped, and

  • Reborn Before Doomsday: The Ex-Military Wife’s Revenge   Chapter 94

    Kane moved first.He didn't lunge. He didn't charge. He just stepped forward, his knife coming in a low, lazy arc that looked almost casual. But I'd seen men die from that exact swing a hundred times. It was a feint. The real attack was the knee driving up toward my stomach a half-second later.I twisted away, the knee grazing my ribs, and brought the tomahawk around in a horizontal sweep. He ducked under it with surprising speed for a man his age, the blade whistling over his head, and came up with the shiv aimed at my throat.I parried with the haft of the tomahawk, the impact jarring my arm to the shoulder, and fired my Glock point-blank at his chest.He twisted. The round caught him in the left bicep, punching through the plate carrier's edge, and he grunted—but he didn't stop. He used the momentum of the hit to spin, driving an elbow into my jaw.My head snapped back. Stars exploded behind my eyes. Blood filled my mouth.He was good. He was very good. Twenty years of running a pris

  • Reborn Before Doomsday: The Ex-Military Wife’s Revenge   Chapter 93

    The breach didn't happen at the door. It happened at the floor.Kane's engineers had spent the last hour of the siege tunneling under the eastern wall, working through the frozen earth with pneumatic drills muffled by the howl of the blizzard. They'd packed the tunnel with enough C4 to crack a runway. When it detonated, the entire eastern corner of the warehouse lifted three feet off its foundation before slamming back down, the concrete slab splitting open like a wound.Cold air poured in first. Then came the men.They rose from the hole like something birthed from the earth itself—covered in frozen mud, their faces wrapped in scarves, their weapons already up and firing before their boots hit the loading bay floor. The first burst of automatic fire shredded the hydraulic lines on the nearest forklift, sending a geyser of burning fluid across the concrete."Contact rear!" Cole roared, already pivoting, his Mk 18 barking in controlled pairs. Two of the rising raiders dropped before th

  • Reborn Before Doomsday: The Ex-Military Wife’s Revenge   Chapter 92

    I sat down at the main terminal and pulled up the external camera feed.The optical cameras were useless, just walls of white static. But the thermal overlay told the story.Jaxie's heat signature was a tiny, flickering dot in the middle of the loading bay. She was standing there, shivering violently, her body temperature already dropping. She looked around, her head turning slowly, searching for somewhere to go, somewhere to hide.But there was nowhere.The loading bay was a frozen hellscape, the snow accumulating rapidly, the wind howling through the breached eastern wall. The temperature was negative twenty-five degrees. She was wearing a torn tactical jacket, no gloves, no hat, no thermal layers.She would be dead in twenty minutes. Maybe less.Then I saw the other heat signatures.Three of them. Pale blue, almost indistinguishable from the ambient cold of the environment. But they were moving. They were shuffling through the snow, their mechanical hum growing louder.The ice-zombie

  • Reborn Before Doomsday: The Ex-Military Wife’s Revenge   Chapter 91

    The dust was still settling when I heard it.A soft, metallic scraping from the ventilation shaft above the command center. It was faint, barely audible over the howl of the wind through the breached eastern wall, but in the sudden, ringing silence after the explosion, it was unmistakable.Maya froze, her hand hovering over the medical kit. Tyler's eyes went wide, his rifle snapping up toward the ceiling. Cole was already moving, his suppressed submachine gun raised, his eyes locked on the vent grate.I held up a hand. Wait.I knew that sound. I knew the rhythm of it—the hesitant, fumbling scrape of someone who wasn't a soldier, who wasn't trained, who was terrified and desperate and trying very, very hard to be quiet.I walked over to the wall panel, my boots silent on the concrete. I punched in the code and pulled up the ventilation camera feed. The image was grainy, the infrared lighting casting everything in shades of green and black.The vent shaft was a narrow, rectangular tunnel,

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