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"Open the door, Devlin! Please!" I hit the steel door with both fists. My hands were bleeding. The cold bit into my skin like knives. Minus fifty degrees. Behind me, the zombies were getting closer. I could hear them groaning in the snow. "I gave you everything!" I screamed. "I transferred the shares! I gave you the safe house! Let me in!" The small window in the door slid open. Devlin's face appeared, warm and smiling. Then Eris moved into view beside him. She was wearing his sweater. His arm went around her waist. My heart stopped. "You're sleeping together," I whispered. Devlin laughed. "Nice thumbprint, by the way. It opened every account you had." "Three years," he added. "Three years of playing the perfect fiancé. I'm so glad I don't have to pretend anymore." "Thanks for the billions you left behind, babe," Eris said sweetly. "Devlin and I will spend them well." She touched the necklace on her neck. My mother's necklace. The last thing Mom ever gave me. "Sis, honestly

"Funny," I said, looking down at her. "You're the one who looks ready to get on her knees."Eris stood in the snow, staring at her flattened bag. Her whole body shook with anger."Morana, don't celebrate too soon!" she screamed. "I'll end you!"Devlin pulled her back by the arm, but his eyes burned into the camera. "Just you wait.""My mother won't let this slide!" Eris shouted over his shoulder. "Do you hear me? She won't!"I closed the side hatch. Their voices became quiet, then disappeared down the road.Let her mother come. I had a few things to say to Elese too....At dawn, the head builder knocked on my office door. His face was gray with tiredness, but he was smiling."Miss Ashford, the electric grid is fully online. And the last shipment of military supplies just arrived.""Unload everything into the defense yard," I said."Yes, ma'am." He looked out the window at the new steel walls, proud of his work. "Everything's built to the highest standard. Nobody is getting through th

I stood up and looked down at him. "Monsters bite back," I said. "So listen carefully. If you ever betray me, I have ten thousand ways to make you wish you were dead." Nikolai didn't flinch. He lowered his head. "From the moment you opened that cage," he said, "this monster answers to one master alone." He lifted his golden eyes to mine. "My life is yours, my Boss." The wind howled outside the cabin. Something in my chest went warm, but I turned away before he could see my face. "Good," I said. "Then get some rest. Tomorrow, we go home." ... Two days later, the storm was still going. Snow buried the roads. The whole city had gone silent except for the groans of the infected. My fortress stood strong. The heaters hummed. The lights glowed. Nikolai sat on the couch eating his third bowl of beef stew like he hadn't eaten in years. An alarm beeped on the security screen. [Movement detected at the front gate.] I tapped the screen. The outside camera showed two figures shaking i