Todos los capítulos de I Died Before The Apocalypse: This Time, I Choose Myself : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

Nadia Blood pooled on the unnaturally smooth stone of the labyrinth floor, soaking into the ruined hem of my red dress. Daniel had told me I looked beautiful in this color just three days ago.I wondered now if he had ever actually looked at me at all.I dragged my shattered legs forward, leaving a red smear across the tiles. A few yards away, the heavy iron door of the Instance's Safe Zone stood half-open.Standing safely inside it were my boyfriend, Daniel. His mother. His younger brother. And his sister, Chloe.None of them were reaching out to help me.“Daniel,” I gasped, pressing a bloody hand against the stone to keep myself from collapsing completely. “Pull me in. I can't feel my legs.”He stood near the center of the Safe Zone, his combat boots free of the dirt and gore covering mine. He didn't step forward.“I can't do that, Nadia,” he said. His voice was completely level.I stared at the man I had loved for six years. The man whose startup I had funded when he couldn't get

Nadia “Nadia, what is going on with you? Not only have I been trying to reach you all morning, you aren't at your apartment, and now I find you standing in the middle of a decommissioned plant the city has been trying to dump for a decade. Don't tell me you're really going to buy this.” Daniel looked around the overgrown parking lot. In my past life, that tone of voice would have made me anxious. I would have scrambled to explain myself, eager to prove I was making smart choices, desperate for his approval. Now, looking at his tailored suit and the expensive watch I had bought him for his birthday last November, I only felt a deep, hollow exhaustion. Like someone had finally turned the volume down on six years of noise. “What are you doing here?” I asked. “Your lawyer called me,” Daniel revealed, his frustration bleeding into actual panic. He ran a hand through his hair. “She said you're freezing accounts and liquidating your mutual funds. What are you doing? You know my start

Nadia Unknown Number: How can you be so vicious? Unknown Number: You threw me out for NOTHING. You owe me for emotional damages or my lawyer will sue you tomorrow! I stared at it for one second. Blocked. Deleted. Chloe's fourth burner number this week. In my last life, that text would have sent me into a full panic attack. I would have called her, apologized, wired her money just to make it stop. Now, I just felt a mild sense of embarrassment for the person I used to be. I put my phone away and looked around the building. Four days had passed since I woke up, and the transformation was almost unbelievable. The underground section was completely finished. The bathrooms had hot running water, the kitchen was fully equipped, and the sleeping quarters were furnished with sturdy beds and warm bedding. My mother had spent the morning organizing the medical supplies and stocking the pantries, genuinely pleased with how comfortable it was. Outside, the construction