All Chapters of Reborn, Divorced and Ready For The Apocalypse: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

Violet's eyes snapped open, and the scream that had been clawing its way up her throat died in a choked gasp.Her chest heaved and her lungs burned. Every breath felt like dragging broken glass through her windpipe.The ceiling above her was white, clean and unnmarred by blood splatter, smoke damage or the scratches of desperate, dying fingers.Her hands flew to her throat, fingers scrambling over smooth and unbroken skin. There were no bite marks, no torn flesh and no warm blood pulsing between her fingers as her life drained away on cold concrete.She sat up so fast the room spun. Sweat plastered her short black hair to her forehead and neck. Her expensive silk pajamas clung to her trembling body.She looked down at her arms. They were pale and whole with no single scratch.What in the world was going on? Why was she unscarred when she clearly remembered teeth sinking into her shoulder while her bones had crunched. She remebered cold spreading through her veins as she bled out on t

The Barnard Helix Institute was a monument to modern science as it stood tall and powerful in the early morning light. Violet's hands tightened on the steering wheel as she pulled into the underground parking garage, her heart pounding against her ribs.The lab was nearly empty when she arrived, her footsteps echoing through the sterile hallways. She swiped her badge at the entrance to Lab Seven and stepped inside, breathing in the familiar scent of disinfectant and recycled air.This was where it would happen. Three weeks from now, in Sub-Level Three, the containment would fail.Violet shrugged on her white lab coat and pulled on gloves. Her hands were steadier than they had any right to be. She moved through the lab like a ghost, pulling up files on her workstation, accessing the LZ-7 research data that Harrison had locked behind seven layers of security clearance.She knew the passwords because she had helped create half of them.The virus structure bloomed across her screen in r

Another hour passed and then another. Every simulation failed and every sequence fell apart. The virus was always one step ahead, adapting faster than they could counteract it."Wait," Violet said suddenly, her fingers freezing over the keyboard. "What if the problem isn't the approach? What if it's the medium?"Jude looked up, his eyes bloodshot and tired. "What do you mean?""The virus rewrites living cells, right? What if we need living cells to test properly? Not just simulations, but actual biological samples?""That would require access to the LZ-7 strain itself," Jude said slowly. "Which is locked in Sub-Level Three under Harrison's authorization."Violet's jaw tightened at the mention of Harrison's name. "Then we find a way to get authorization.""How? Harrison thinks you're insane. He's not going to give you access to his billion-dollar project.""I'll figure something out." Violet said, even though she had no idea how. Her mind was too exhausted to think clearly, and her eye