The Scarred Beauty
He chose his mistress over me. Thirty days later, the world ended.
In my first life, I gave Victor Lang everything—my love, my youth, my inheritance, and every ounce of strength I had.
When the apocalypse came, he promised me a place inside Aurora Deep, the ultimate underground shelter. I believed him.
I was wrong.
On the night the world froze, Victor pulled his mistress through the bunker doors and left me outside to die in the snow.
Then I woke up.
Thirty days before the apocalypse.
This time, I don't beg Victor to love me. I file for divorce, reclaim my inheritance, liquidate everything that will soon become worthless, and buy a remote mountain resort to turn into my fortress.
But just as I begin preparing for the end of the world, something impossible awakens inside me.
A jade locket left by my mother unlocks a mysterious ability called the Living Vault—a supernatural space capable of storing and preserving the very things civilization will soon lose.
Food. Water. Seeds. Medicine.
And perhaps something far more dangerous.
Then there's Cameroon Guyana, a former special-forces rescue commander who has been watching my preparations from the shadows.
He doesn't believe my story.
He doesn't trust me.
And he certainly doesn't know why he keeps dreaming of snow, a locked door, and a woman he has never met.
As the sky turns red, the lights go out, and monsters begin to emerge, I realize one terrifying truth:
I wasn't brought back to save my old life.
I was brought back to survive the end of the world.
And this time, I will be the one deciding who gets through the door.
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