All Chapters of Reborn 60 Days Before The Apocalypse: Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

Scarlett woke up feeling refreshed in a way that she had not felt in a long time. Her eyes blinked open slowly and met Leon’s staring at her with warmth and affection. “You’re up,” Leon said. “I made breakfast. You must be hungry.” Scarlett sat up and stretched her body. She could feel it. She had grown stronger overnight. For a while, she had not been so focused on improving her physical fitness so she had completely forgotten about the benefits that intimacy had on her strength. Maybe she could consider doing it a few more times with Leon… The moment the thought formed in her head, she shook it away. It was best that her relationship with Leon remained strictly professional. Last night was a mistake that could not happen again. She knew better than to be forming emotional bonds like this during the apocalypse. What if something happened and she had to make a tough decision to leave or maybe, even kill? Constant intimacy like this would only impair her judgment. Leon

Scarlett entered the house and checked through the peephole. There was a woman on the other side of the door.She looked harmless and a bit malnourished, like one of the women downstairs but Scarlett knew better than to trust people by their appearance.She returned to the base and called Nica up the hill back into the house. “Someone is at the door. I think it is one of the women from downstairs. Do you know her?”The two of them tiptoed up the stairs and Nica peeked through the peephole.Nica’s entire body froze and she stumbled backwards. Scarlett caught her before she could knock down one of the lamps and give away the fact that they were right behind the door.Scarlett helped Nica to the base so they could talk in private.“That’s Donna,” Nica whispered, her eyes widened. “She is…she is the one who manages all the girls under the gang. And also decides who goes where. I don’t know what she is doing here but—”“She must have realized something was wrong and came to check it out he

“Fine,” Scarlett said, standing up.She was about to leave when she remembered that Donna could not move and was bleeding on the floor.Her eyes dropped down to the wound and bullet inside of it. Perhaps Leon might be able to handle it.He must have had similar experiences in the army.“Come on,” Scarlett said and lifted Donna over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Then, she carried her back to her apartment.Leon and Nica were already waiting on the inside. When the door opened, they stood to their feet.“Leon, can you take care of a gunshot wound?” Scarlett asked.Leon looked down at where Donna was bleeding. Thankfully, she had not lost a lot of blood or that would have been a hassle of its own.“I need some first aid equipment,” he said, setting Donna on the ground. Scarlett nodded and entered her bathroom so she could take out the first aid tools from her pocket space.Donna’s eyes were glued to Leon as he worked on her wound. Despite the pain she was in, her mind was clear

Scarlett returned to her apartment after spending a day at the beach and found Leon on the couch, just staring into space.She sat down beside him, staring at the side of his face until he realized that she was right there.His cheeks tinted. “Scarlett! When did you come in?”Her brow raised. It was so out of Leon’s character for him not to notice his surroundings. Something must be bothering him so much.“Is something wrong?” Scarlett asked him, trying to think. Nothing particularly extraordinary had happened over the past few days.Leon shook his head, rubbing the sides of his head. “I just…I was thinking of the weather, wondering if it would end with just the heat wave. I mean, how hot will it get?”Scarlett’s shoulders slacked and she nodded. The temperature had risen to an average in the forties. This morning, it was a whooping 44 degrees.Scarlett felt like she was being cooked alive, even with all the air conditioners on full blast. She instantly rushed to the base, only daring

Nica did not bother to deny the accusation.When Scarlett had brought Donna into her apartment, there was nothing she could say. After all, the only reason she was alive was that Scarlett decided to help her as well.But when she went downstairs and saw Donna and Lee laughing with each other, behaving like everything was alright, she just snapped.Nica had not really been trying to kill Donna but with how injured and weak Donna was, if Nica had beat her any harder, she might have died.Donna was the same woman who had taken her mother and sister away from her, thrown them to the dogs in headquarters and had the audacity to behave like she was a victim.Even if Scarlett and Leon punished her today or even kicked her out, she would not regret what she did.Leon glanced at Scarlett to see her staring down at Nica with a conflicted look. In a split second, the look disappeared like it had not been there in the first place.“As long as she is not dead,” Scarlett said and turned around to c