Searing Doomsday: I Crush My Holier-Than-Thou Sister

"Evelyn, don't you think you're being greedy?" Dad sat at the dining table, his voice dripping with sarcasm."You got first place in the city on one exam, and now you want two percent of the company? Absolutely not."I looked down at my unblemished skin, my mind wandering.Dad kept going. "You're not getting any shares. Try being more like your sister for once. You're constantly causing me trouble."I had just finished my SATs. Dad promised that if I got into the country's top college, he would grant me one request.Everyone knew he favored my younger sister, Amber Carter. I wouldn't inherit the company or any of the family assets.I needed to secure my own future, so I made my request while I had the chance. But the heatwave came, the world ended, and I never got what he promised.Memories from my previous life flooded back. When the extreme temperatures hit and civilization collapsed, supplies became everything.People would kill for a single slice of bread. Company shares

I went back home to grab the last of my equipment. The moment I stepped through the door, Mom tore into me."Where have you been? You just turned 18 and you're already running wild. Why can't you be more like your sister?"The three of them sat peacefully in the living room watching TV, but my arrival killed the atmosphere instantly. I was used to this kind of abuse by now.The evening news showed the increasingly dire global situation. Several major countries were already experiencing extreme heat and drought. Dad frowned, his eyes glued to the screen.Images of heat devastation scrolled across the TV. Amber's eyes immediately welled up."Dad, those poor people are suffering. We should donate more at this year's charity gala."I couldn't help glancing at her when she said that. That one look seemed to flip a switch in her."Evelyn, I know you look down on the poor. But we need to have compassion. That's what Mom and Dad taught us growing up. Don't let your test scores make you

I didn't tell them I owned a two-story villa. Instead, I settled them in the underground garage. After marveling at my foresight, they gave me an unexpected gift.One of them, a woman named Lucy Bennett, winked at me playfully. She then hacked into my home security cameras in seconds."I've been watching this drama unfold for days. I thought you might be interested too."I hadn't expected her to be such an elite hacker. No system seemed beyond her reach. Honestly, the name Lucy Bennett sounded familiar somehow.That evening, the sun was still high up in the sky. The heatwave apocalypse had arrived. On the first day of the end times, Amber still hadn't grasped how serious things were.Dad was already affected by the extreme heat, but he had no idea yet. In a few more days, he'd be lying in bed in agony, dizzy and swollen, unable to even stand.Mom and Amber were at the front door, handing out stew to rioters. The food had already spoiled and wasn't safe to eat, but they didn't k

Two weeks into the apocalypse, global temperatures climbed to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. However, the underground garage stayed cool and comfortable.Jared returned with seeds and several plants that hadn't mutated yet. I didn't know where he'd found them, but the bruises covering his arms told me they'd worked hard to get them.I loosened the soil, watered the plants, and finally stopped to rest. Animals had already mutated, and fertilizer was useless, so everything had to be done by hand.On the video feed, Amber huddled in her cooling mat while Dad lay half-dead beside her. Their faces had sunken in noticeably. It had been two weeks since they last had a proper meal. That evening, after dinner, Jared and the other mercenary, Richard Wagner, headed out on patrol. Lucy shot me a mischievous grin. "Want to mess with your family a little?"I raised an eyebrow as Lucy pulled over her laptop and started typing rapidly. Within seconds, she'd connected directly to my family's TV.I po

Amber kept her word. Not only did she refuse to help me, but she actually tried to poison my food.She ground spoiled, heat-damaged food into a fine powder and mixed it into my meals. Fortunately, Richard caught it in time.Amber didn't know that every meal delivered to me went through inspection first. I could guess why she did it. She was terrified I'd expose her and Dad's secret, destroying the carefully crafted image she'd worked so hard to build.When Lucy found out, she chewed out the worker who'd let them into the shelter, then wanted to confront them directly. I thought about it for a moment, then stopped her."Beating them up and throwing them out would be too easy," I said. "She wouldn't learn anything from it. What she values most is her reputation. So I'm going to destroy it completely."Inside the shelter, Amber maintained her saint persona every day. During the day, she cared for Dad. At night, she snuck off to Derek's place.Everyone praised her as a devoted daught