Decisive Reborn Web Novels & Stories

He locked the gate and watched the infected tear me apart. My husband stood on the safe side, eyes cold, and told me the truth with his final words: “You should have been the one who died that day.” He had always loved her. They even had a child together. I was just the wife who dragged him onto the last helicopter and left her behind. I died with his betrayal in my ears and his child in my stomach. Then I opened my eyes two years before the apocalypse. Same husband. Same mistress. Same soft, disposable wife they thought they still owned. But the woman who used to beg and sacrifice is already dead. This time, I will not save him. This time, I will not share a single resource. This time, when the world ends, I will be the one standing behind the locked gate… Watching them both beg.

Rowan Hale spent seven years giving everything to her husband Dominic Pryce and his family: her savings, her career, her health. When the dead rose in the winter after the Great Flood, he had one seat left on the evacuation truck, and he gave it to his mistress. Rowan’s own sister was the mistress, and the child Rowan had raised as a nephew was theirs. Rowan died in the snow with the truth in her mouth like ash. Then she woke up in her own bed, with ninety days left on a clock only she could see. Rowan walks away from the marriage on day one. She has no tears left, only a paper trail and a grandmother’s sealed inheritance that her husband never knew existed. She sells what the end of the world will make worthless and buys what it will make priceless. A strange spatial ability she barely understands is awakening in her hands. The whole neighborhood thinks grief has broken her mind, and her ex-husband is already circling her new money. But this apocalypse is wrong. The weather is turning too early. A silent, watchful neighbor with a soldier’s eyes keeps noticing things about her that no stranger should. And someone is moving through Rowan’s carefully rebuilt life who seems to remember the first timeline too. She died once because she trusted the wrong people. This time she’s counting every day.

He gave my place in the shelter I paid for to his mistress, then watched me die on the steps. The man I trusted. The "cousin" he swore was only family. Fifty-nine degrees of sun, and a door that never opened. Then I woke up in my own bed, ninety days before the sun came for the world. Now a glowing screen only I can see is giving me orders, and every one of them is a blow. Expose the cousin. Leave the boyfriend. Sell the house. Sell the company. While the whole city whispers that I've lost my mind, I'm buying every air conditioner I can find and hiding them where nobody will look. They don't know what's coming. I do. Somewhere in this city is the stranger who died trying to open that door for me. And when the heat arrives, everyone will come to my gate. The ones who left me outside will beg the loudest. I will not open it.

I spent nine years begging my husband to love me. In return, he gave me betrayal, torture, and death. Kai cheated on me with my stepsister, Hellen. My father chose Miranda, the woman who stole my mother's empire. Together, they drugged me, branded me insane, and locked me away to die. They knew I was being tortured. Neither came to save me. Only Valerian, my husband's cold, untouchable uncle, held me as I took my final breath. As I died in his arms, I made one last promise: if fate gave me another chance, I'd never beg for love again. Then I opened my eyes. I was back in the past. This time, I'll reclaim my mother's empire, expose their lies, and make everyone who destroyed me regret it. I'll choose myself first. Then I'll choose Valerian. But the professor I've fallen for hides a dangerous secret. And this time, I'm not afraid of the darkness. Because my second chance isn't just about revenge. It's about claiming the man who might be more dangerous than all my enemies combined.