All Chapters of Reborn 30 Days Before Doomsday:The Billionaire Wants Me : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Six months later, Sharon barely remembered how it felt to wake up without the expectation of the world ending before sunset.Almost.She still checked the locks before going to sleep, still counted the supplies in their storage room when Alex told her there was more than enough for several months, and still kept a gun close to her side every time she had to leave their settlement, because the survival instinct was still deeply ingrained in her after everything they had been through.But in the recent months, she had started to believe that maybe, just maybe, they had made it.The settlement was doing good.Once empty fields were filled with veggies, several families had repaired the houses along the main street, and the old school building had been converted into a clinic, where Dr. Evelyn Hart was ready to assist every single person who came to her, regardless of what faction they used to belong to in the apocalypse years.Daniel Cross trained the settlement's guards, while Victoria

"Luna, put the photograph down."Alex's voice was calm but Sharon could hear the fear buried beneath it, the same fear that had crept into his tone as soon as a doctor had arrived at their daughter's hospital bed.Luna didn't move.She stood in the doorway with the photograph clutched between both hands staring down at the little girl beside her as if she expected the image to speak."I remember her," Luna whispered, her voice shaking as she looked at the little girl's bedroom where she had spent so many nights hiding behind the furniture, her toys, and her own heart. "I remember her room, her toys, the way she used to hide under my bed when she was frightened of thunder."Sharon approached her slowly.“You were very young, sweetheart.”Luna shook her head."No, Mom. I remember more than that."Her eyes were filled with tears."I remember the night they took her away."Alex went pale.Sharon stopped walking."What night?"Luna looked at her father and the fear in her expression was re

"Every time, you chose the wrong daughter."The words came out of Luna's mouth, but they didn't sound like her at all - it was as if something else was talking through her, something that shouldn't be able to speak.Sharon gazed at her daughter, and her mind struggled to connect the face she knew so well with the eerie silver rings that seemed to be taking over her eyes. It was as if she'd been transported back to a time she thought she'd left behind - a time of sterile labs and harsh lighting, where some people thought it was okay to sacrifice lives for the sake of science. The memory hit her like a punch to the gut, leaving her breathless and disoriented. For a moment, the past and present collided, and all she could see was the fear and uncertainty that had haunted her for so long. Her daughter's face, once a symbol of hope and joy, now seemed to be a reminder of the horrors she'd tried to escape.Then Luna's fingers tightened around Alex's arm."Mom?"Her own voice had returned.A

Sharon had seen monsters wear human skin before.She had seen zombies drag loving faces through bloodstained streets, and she had learned that the deadliest lies were often the ones that sounded the most like the truth.But she had never heard her voice laughing from the other side of a locked door."Thank you for opening the door, Mother."Mira was shaking so hard that Sharon had to fight to keep from dropping herAs soon as Sharon's fingers brushed against her skin, a cold wave of something unnameable ran through her veins and she found herself standing at the end of a white corridor.A glass chamber stretched before her, hundreds of silver threads running through the darkness.And a woman stood in the center, her face exactly like Sharon's own.Sharon stumbled back, nearly dropping Mira."Mom?" Alex grabbed her shoulder. "What happened?"" Don't touch her!"Mira's voice froze him in his tracks." Don't touch me," she repeated, staring at Alex. "Not until we know what it did to her.

"Mommy, why did you let me die?"Sharon gripped the radio so hard her fingers ached.Years had taught her that the hardest thing a person could lose was the memory of a person they loved. She would never have believed that remembering the love before the loss was equally as devastating as forgetting the loss in the first place."Emily," she whispered. "Sweetheart, can you hear me?"There was a static crackling,then a soft sobbing."Mommy?""I'm here. I'm listening. Tell me where you are.""I don't know."Sharon's throat suddenly tightens."Can you see, Luna?""Yes.""Is she safe?"There was a long pause before the answer."She's sleeping," was her reply, "but the woman said she'll not awake until the house is finished."Alex leaned closer to the radio."What house, Emily?"The child's breathing changed."Who is that?""I'm your father, sweetheart."Another pause, then her voice came through again, whispering."You look different."Alex's face contorted with something like pain, then