Lahat ng Kabanata ng 50 DAYS TO D0OMSDAY: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 5

The door slammed shut in my face.I stumbled backward, my bare feet slipping against the frozen ground.“Please!”I slammed both hands against the metal door.“Open the door!”My voice was hoarse from screaming.The cold had already numbed my fingers. My lips were trembling, and every breath burned my lungs.But I didn’t care.I needed to get inside and I needed my husband.“Ethan!”Through the thick glass, I could see the people inside the shelter.His mother.The security guards.And my husband.He was standing with his back toward me.I hit the glass again.“Ethan, please!”He slowly turned around.Our eyes met.Relief rushed through me.He would open the door.He had to because I was his wife.I had spent the past several weeks doing everything I could to keep him and his family alive.I had searched for food.I had risked my life looking for medicine.I had given up my own supplies whenever his family needed something.I thought that meant I mattered.Then I saw the woman standin

I didn’t sleep that night.There was too much running through my mind.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the shelter doors closing.I saw Ethan standing behind the glass.I saw my sister beside him.I heard his voice telling me there wasn’t enough room.I remembered the way my hands had gone numb.The way my body had slowly stopped responding.And most of all, I remembered what he had said.“You’re not useful anymore.”Those words had followed me into death.For years, I had believed that being a good wife meant being useful.If I cooked for him, supported his career, take good care of his family, stayed quiet when they hurt me, forgave him , I was a good wife.I had spent so much time trying to prove my value to people who had already decided I wasn’t valuable.I looked at my body and blamed it.Looked at my personality and blamed it.I had convinced myself that maybe if I lost weight, became prettier, became quieter, became more agreeable, Ethan would finally look at me the way he

The next morning, I stood in front of my mirror longer than usual.Not because I was worried about how I looked.I wasn’t.That version of me was gone.Still, meeting Lucian Vale was different.He wasn’t Ethan.He wasn’t someone I had known for years.He was a stranger.A powerful one.And I needed something from him.That meant I couldn’t afford to walk into his office looking desperate.I chose a simple black dress that fit my body comfortably.I looked at myself one last time.My hair fell over my shoulders.My curves were obvious.And for once, I didn’t try to hide them.I didn’t need to.I wasn’t going to his office to convince him that I was beautiful.I was going there because I knew something he didn’t.I picked up my handbag.The system appeared.[Reminder: Main Mission.][Establish a survival alliance with Lucian Vale.]“I know.”[Warning: Target possesses high suspicion levels.]I frowned.“Thanks for the encouragement.”The system disappeared.I arrived at Vale Internation