All Chapters of REBORN BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE: MY EX BEGS FOR MERCY: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

14 Chapters

Chapter 1: THE DEATH OF MY UNBORN CHILD

POV: PHINA CHAPTER 1 — THE DEATH OF MY UNBORN CHILDPOV: PHINAMy husband left me and our unborn child to die in the storm while he was with another woman. I sat curled in a ball on the ice-slicked concrete of the rooftop helipad, my shivering arms wrapped tightly around my swollen stomach. I was seven months pregnant. For months, as the global weather collapsed and the world drowned in frost, I had given away my rations, my heavy coats, and my medicine. I had starved myself so Harrison could maintain his strength. I had bled to secure antibiotic injections for his sickly mother. I had endured every humiliation, believing with every fiber of my being that my husband loved me, and that when the ultimate survival moment arrived, he would protect our unborn child. The deafening roar of the private evac helicopter's rotor blades cut through the storm overhead. A single rescue transport had arrived. "There's only room for two passengers!" the pilot yelled through the freezing wind,

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Chapter 2: THE WIFE WHO REFUSED TO OBEY

POV: PHINAHarrison stared at me for three long seconds, his face blank with sheer disbelief. Then, a harsh, mocking laugh burst from his chest. "A divorce?" He shook his head, looking at me with the smug, patronizing amusement he usually reserved for unruly children. "Phina, stop this ridiculous, embarrassing display. You're throwing a temper tantrum because I brought Vera home? Grow up." Beside him, Vera stepped forward, her eyes brimming with sudden, delicate tears. She reached out, her fingers trembling as she lightly touched Harrison's sleeve. "Phina, please... don't do this," Vera whimpered, her voice dripping with artificial innocence. "It's all my fault. I'll just leave and find a hotel. I never meant to stand between you and Harrison. Please don't let me ruin your marriage..." In my previous life, Vera's pathetic act would have driven me into an emotional frenzy. I would have raised my voice, tried to defend myself, and made myself look like the crazy, jealous wife wh

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Chapter 3: THE FORTUNE HE NEVER KNEW ABOUT

POV: PHINAThe leather seat of the executive town car felt smooth against my back as Arthur’s words hung in the air through the Bluetooth speaker. "What do you mean, Arthur?" I asked, my heart hammering against my ribs. "Harrison spent five years telling me my father's failed real estate investments wiped out the entire Hastings estate." "Harrison Bennet is a manipulator who capitalized on your grief, Miss Hastings," Arthur replied, his pen clicking sharply on the other end of the line. "Your father's personal assets were indeed liquidated, but your grandfather, Old Mr. Hastings, was a visionary. He foresaw the vultures that would circle you after his death. Two weeks before he passed, he transferred his primary fortune into an offshore, irrevocable dynasty trust registered in the Cayman Islands." I leaned forward, my knuckles turning white as I gripped my phone. "An irrevocable trust?" "Precisely," Arthur explained. "By law, assets within this trust do not constitute marital

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Chapter 4: NINETY DAYS TO PREPARE

POV: PHINAThe news anchor’s voice drifted through the leather interior of the town car, but my mind was already calculating the terrifying reality. The atmospheric pressure shift was happening early. The ninety days I thought I had were shrinking before my eyes. I couldn't afford to waste a single second. "Driver, change route," I commanded smoothly. "Take me straight to Hastings Tower."If I began buying mountain loads of non-perishable food, military-grade medical supplies, and industrial generators under my personal name, Harrison’s legal team would immediately flag the purchases as reckless behavior. They would try to claim I was mentally unstable to freeze my trust fund. I had to play this smart. The moment I stepped into the top-floor executive suite at Hastings Tower, I summoned Edwin. Edwin was my grandfather’s former chief of staff and head butler, a sharp, quiet man in his sixties with slicked-back silver hair and absolute loyalty. In my previous life, when the fros

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Chapter 5: THE TRUST WAR

POV: PHINA"Phina, we have a situation," Arthur’s voice cut through the phone, sharp and uncharacteristically tense. "Harrison just filed an emergency motion with the High Court to freeze all your liquid assets. He’s claiming you secretly transferred marital property after announcing the divorce."Standing by the floor-to-ceiling windows in the study at Highland Crest Manor, I didn't flinch. Below me, workers under strict non-disclosure agreements were hauling reinforced steel beams into the subterranean vaults, but my attention focused completely on the phone. A cold, quiet clarity washed over me.I wasn't frightened. Instead, a grim satisfaction settled in my chest. Harrison was making the exact mistake I had counted on. Arrogant, predictable, and desperate, he was playing right into my hand."I’m coming to your office now, Arthur," I said smoothly. "Have the original files ready."Thirty minutes later, I stepped into the mahogany-lined conference room of Pendleton & Associates. Art

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Chapter 6: The Future Is Already Changing

POV: PHINAI stood in the underground command room at Highland Crest Manor, staring at the split-screen satellite telemetry projected across three wall-mounted monitors.On the left monitor was the atmospheric timeline I had carefully reconstructed from memory, the precise meteorological sequence that had triggered the global freeze in my first life. On the right was the live thermal radar feeding directly from our private satellite link.They didn't match.A massive atmospheric pressure disturbance was rapidly organizing over the North Atlantic, sending jagged tendrils of arctic air plunging toward the eastern seaboard. In my previous life, that specific pressure drop hadn't manifested until late December.It is happening now. Almost six weeks earlier than I remembered.At first, I tried to convince myself the difference was insignificant. A temporary thermal fluctuation, perhaps. A localized storm system that would dissipate before doing real damage.Then another abnormal reading fl

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Chapter 7: The Fortress

POV: PHINAHighland Crest Manor no longer looked like a mansion; it looked like a place built to survive the collapse of civilization. Where lush, rolling lawns and ornamental flowerbeds once framed the estate, heavy steel-reinforced concrete walls now rose twelve feet into the air, anchored deep into bedrock. Thick iron gates fitted with thermal scanners and biometric locks stood at the main entryway. Above the main roof, state-of-the-art solar arrays angled toward the autumn sun, feeding a massive underground battery bank while dual-redundant industrial diesel generators hummed softly in subterranean soundproofed vaults. I walked the perimeter wearing a heavy tactical jacket and combat boots, personally inspecting every single installation. "Checking the seal on the air-filtration scrubbers again, Miss Phina?" Edwin asked, stepping up beside me with an electronic tablet in hand. "I have to, Edwin," I said, running my gloved hand along the airtight seals of the primary ventil

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Chapter 8: The Rules Of Survival

POV: PHINASurviving the end of the world was never going to be a matter of stockpiling enough grain or locking myself behind twelve-foot walls. Food rots, walls fall, and eventually, the cold breaks through every barrier. The real key to surviving the coming apocalypse lies in knowing exactly whom to trust, and setting boundaries that can never be crossed.Sitting at my desk in the command center, I opened a fresh file on my encrypted laptop and titled it “The Highland Protocols.”In my previous life, I had learned the hard way that unconditional generosity in a dying world is a death sentence. When the frost hit, I had opened my heart and shared everything with people who viewed my kindness as weakness. This time, there would be no free passes. Highland Crest Manor would not become a charity.Every survivor who stepped through those gates would have to earn their place. They would need to contribute through specialized, essential skills, medical expertise, tactical security, agricul

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Chapter 9: I Will Never Be Helpless Again

POV: PHINAThe fading echo of a tiny, fluttering heartbeat was the last thing I heard before I woke up screaming.I jolted upright in bed, my chest heaving, cold sweat soaking through my shirt. My hands instinctively slammed against my flat abdomen, fingers digging into the fabric as if I could somehow feel the ghostly movement of my seven-month pregnancy. But there was only my smooth, empty skin.The nightmare receded slowly, leaving behind the agonizing clarity of that icy helipad. I could still feel the raw bite of the sub-zero wind cutting through my skin. I could still see Harrison’s impassive face as he shoved me onto the frozen roof. I could still hear Vera’s sweet, venomous voice mocking my dying baby while wearing my stolen mink coat. I had bled, starved, and begged on my knees, and my reward had been a death sentence in the snow.A tear slipped down my cheek, burning hot against my freezing skin. I wiped it away violently, my fingers trembling with a lethal, suffocating rage

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Chapter 10: The Countdown Tightens

POV: PHINAHarrison knew there was money, a staggering, multi-billion-dollar fortune sitting in the dormant Hastings master trust. But his greedy, short-sighted mind couldn't comprehend the true scope of what I was doing. He thought I was hoarding cash for a lavish post-divorce lifestyle, completely oblivious to the fact that I was building an underground fortress to survive the collapse of human civilization."My grandfather's estate is none of your business, Harrison," I said into the phone, my voice dropping into an icy, unyielding register."It is my business, Phina!" Harrison snarled through the receiver, his arrogant facade completely fracturing. "We are legally married. Under state law, any assets unlocked during our marriage are subject to division. If you think you can just hide billions of dollars in a web of offshore trusts, file for divorce, and walk away from me, you're delusional. I will contest every single filing. I will freeze every account you touch until you don't h

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