บททั้งหมดของ A Fake Necklace from My Husband Before The Zombie Apocalypse: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

Alice Cole had never cared about jewelry. At least, that was what she always told herself. After years of marriage to Jason Cole, one of the richest men in the country, she had received countless luxury gifts. Expensive watches. Designer handbags. Rare collections other women could only dream of. Yet none of them mattered as much as the meaning behind the gift. That was why the necklace Jason gave her on their anniversary made her heart soften. It was not just another expensive item. Jason stood in front of cameras, holding a black velvet box, and told the world that Alice was the woman who had stayed beside him before his success. The media loved the story. The billionaire CEO who never forgot the woman who supported him when he had nothing. Alice wanted to believe it too. She wanted to believe Jason still remembered the nights she stayed awake helping him build his first company. The days when no one believed in him except her. Maybe the necklace was his way of saying he ha

Alice woke to someone calling her name. "Mrs. Cole? Mrs. Cole, can you hear me?" Her eyelids felt unbearably heavy. She tried to move, but a sharp ache pulsed through the back of her head. For several seconds, she could only hear the faint clatter of porcelain and the frightened voice hovering somewhere beside her. "Mrs. Cole, please wake up." Alice finally opened her eyes. The familiar ceiling of her bedroom came into focus, followed by the worried face of Maria, one of the senior maids in the Cole mansion. The woman was kneeling beside the bed, one handpressed against her own chest. "Thank God," Maria whispered. "I thought you had fainted again."Alice stared at her. "How long was I unconscious?" "I'm not sure, ma'am. This was the first time I came in. I was about to bring you breakfast when I found you lying on the floor." Maria reached for the glass of water on the bedside table. "Please, drink this." Alice pushed herself upright and accepted it with trembling fingers. T

“Jade, I didn’t realize you still had my number,” Alice said quietly, glancing toward the living room where everyone was preparing for the banquet. “I keep things as memories. Old numbers, old messages, old mistakes…” Jade paused. “My personal museum of poor judgment.”Alice smiled faintly. “We were classmates. We were supposed to stay in touch.”“Classmates?” Jade’s voice was dry. “That’s a convenient way to describe six years of knowing someone.”Alice gave a quiet laugh. “You were never good at letting things go.”“No. You were.”The smile left Alice’s face. There it was: Jade, cool and unreadable, never revealing more than he meant to. Even in college he could sit through an entire conversation with that same expression while Alice filled every silence. Somehow it worked.Alice had gotten into university on a Black Family Foundation scholarship. Jade had been born to inherit the foundation itself. But between them the difference never mattered. If anything, Jade made sure it neve

Alice felt like her mind was unbearably noisy. Ever since leaving the foundation archives the night before, her thoughts had refused to settle. There were simply too many unanswered questions. The necklace, Project Genesis, Jade's mother, Jason's father, and the person referred to as Subject Zero.Alice paced back and forth across her bedroom, hugging her arms. “Sixty days…”She could still remember the vision that had appeared when she touched the necklace. A city engulfed in flames, people running through the streets, sirens wailing, and a whisper telling her that everything would happen on the sixtieth day.How could a lifeless object possibly show her the future?Alice stopped in front of the wardrobe. She reached out and pulled open a drawer. The necklace was lying there. She slowly picked it up.It looked completely ordinary. There was nothing particularly special about it. Just a simple pendant attached to a thin chain. Yet Alice already knew that its appearance was deceiving

*CHAPTER — THE MISSING PHOTO*It was late at night when Jason entered his mother’s study. Evelyn was sitting on the sofa, holding a glass of wine. Her expression was tense, unlike her usual self.The moment she saw Jason, she immediately set her glass down. “Jason, we need to talk.” Jason closed the door behind him. “Is this about Alice?” Evelyn nodded. “She’s been meeting Jade more often.”Jason sighed and walked toward the window. “I know about that.” “You know?” Evelyn stared at him sharply. “If you know, why are you still doing nothing?” “Because I’m keeping an eye on her.” “And you think that’s enough?” Jason said nothing. Evelyn rose from the sofa. “Jade isn’t stupid. If Alice keeps meeting him, sooner or later she’ll find out something.” “I won’t let that happen.” “How can you be so sure?” Jason turned toward her. “Because I’ll make sure Alice doesn’t get the chance to find out anything more.”Evelyn was silent for a moment. “Has she found so