All Chapters of 60 Days Before Zombies: Spoiled by the Ruthless Ex-Cop: Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

"Luke, please! Open the iron gate! The zombies are right behind me!"Nova Gregory banged her bleeding hands against the thick steel door of the safe house.It was freezing cold outside. Heavy snow fell from the dark sky, and her thin coat was ripped and soaked in mud. Down the hill, twenty rotting zombies were running straight toward her. Their yellow teeth snapped together, and black drool dripped from their chins.Inside the warm safe house, the yellow lights were bright.Nova’s husband of two years, Luke Palmer, stood safe behind the bulletproof glass window. Right next to him stood Nova’s dad, Walter Gregory, and her stepsister, Bella Martin.They were sitting around a warm fireplace, eating hot steak and drinking red wine.Worst of all, this safe house—and every single piece of food inside it—had been bought with Nova’s dead mom’s money!"Nova, stop banging on the door! You are giving me a headache," her dad said coldly through the wall speaker. "There is only enough food left fo

Ten minutes later, Cyrus walked out of the locker room wearing a clean black t-shirt that stretched tight across his chest and a pair of dark jeans. He carried his whole life in one small gym bag over his shoulder.When they drove back to the tall glass building downtown so Nova could pick up the final stamped copy of her divorce papers and her mom’s land deeds, Cyrus walked half a step behind her like a real bodyguard—his sharp eyes watching everyone on the street.Just as they walked into the shiny marble lobby in front of the private elevators, an angry voice shouted Nova’s name."Nova! Stop right there!"Nova turned around.Luke Palmer and Bella Martin were marching through the glass front doors. Luke’s face was bright red because the bank had just called to tell him all his credit cards were canceled!"Nova, what kind of crazy game are you playing?!" Luke yelled, stomping right up to her. "The bank just told me you moved all two billion dollars out of our family account! And my s

Over the next forty days, Nova and Cyrus went on the biggest shopping spree the country had ever seen.Using five rented warehouses by the train station so nobody would see how her magic ring worked, Nova spent hundreds of millions of dollars every single week.She bought twenty thousand tons of white rice, flour, noodles, and cooking oil. She bought out an entire meat factory—filling her magic warehouse with fifty thousand boxes of A5 Wagyu steak, pork ribs, chicken wings, lamb chops, and fresh lobsters.She even bought ten whole trucks of strawberry cake, hot chocolate, ice cream, potato chips, and milk tea from the best shops in the city—and because time stood still inside her ring space, the hot food stayed steaming hot and the ice cream never melted!Every night after the truck drivers went home, Nova would walk into the rented warehouses alone, wave her little hand, and whoosh—empty the whole building into her ring in thirty seconds flat.Meanwhile, back in the city, Luke, Bella

Outside Warehouse Number 5, the bright sun shone down on twenty shocked men.Mr. Cobb dropped his megaphone on the concrete floor. His mouth hung wide open as he stared at the giant iron door lying in the dirt—and the tall, scarred man standing in the doorway holding a bent steel crowbar."W-What are you waiting for?!" Mr. Cobb screamed at his thugs, backing up behind a forklift. "He’s just one guy! Chop him up!"Three big men holding long butcher knives yelled and ran straight at Cyrus.Cyrus didn't even blink.He stepped forward faster than a shadow.WHACK! CRACK!With two swings of the steel crowbar, he knocked the knives right out of their hands and sent all three thugs flying across the yard like rag dolls!Before the next five men could swing their baseball bats, Cyrus side-kicked the biggest guy right in the stomach—sending him crashing into the other four like bowling pins.Inside the doorway, Nova peeked out from under Cyrus’s warm black jacket. Her eyes were wide and bright.