Ruth Ware Zero Days Novels & Stories

"Rori Zoe Ryan." ________

As I lost consciousness, I saw Levi running toward me. When I woke up again, the smell of disinfectants filled the air, and Levi sat beside me. As soon as he noticed I was awake, he grabbed my hand tightly. He asked, "Caitlyn, are you feeling better?" I yanked my hand away and remained silent, knowing that words would not matter. Levi grew anxious when he saw my empty stare. "Caitlyn, please say something. Don't shut me out like this, okay?"

We drove out of the neighborhood and the sound of old friends chatting fainted out as I stared out of the car window. All I could think about was Mila and Aurellia. At least Mila is safe right now. She's with Uncle Charlie and Aunt Maya. But what about Aurellia- I wonder what she was thinking about in her last moments. I wonder what went through Rafe's mind when he found her body in the refrigerator. What Mila must've went through when she saw her aunt get murdered in cold blood. They both needed someone to come- to help them. But no one ever did.

Aurora slowly sank to the floor. But the chains were small so her wrist was still in the air hanging with the support of the restraints. Her shoulders slumped as she looked around hazily. She blinked to get rid of the tears. Crusty walls which smelt like blood. It made her feel sick to the stomach. She blinked at the wall where several torturing weapons were hanging like a canvas of death. He was about to use one of them on her. Her mate.

] I heard Nicholas' voice from the earpiece. I sucked my breath and chewed my bottom lip. I can't speak or Laura will find out that I came here with a plan. Just like what I talked with Nicholas, I cleared my throat to give him an assurance that I'm okay. [Careful, baby.] His words touched my heart and made it pound hard. I roamed my eyes around and that's when the lights turned on. My lips parted as I realized that I'm inside an abandoned warehouse. I saw silhouettes on the top of the cargo containers.

RAMON 60 Days. 60 Days To make her fall Inlove. To marry her. And then finally, To kill her. The boss assigned me to her. She was my fifth assignment. And then I met her, and she was so fucking beautiful. So fucking perfect. Her dark eyes, her massive dark hair, her curves, her flawless skin... And I was supposed to kill her? I knew this was going to be hard. But what I didn't know, is how hard I would fall for her as each day passed.

The heavy door groaned, swinging inward to reveal a room bathed in a soft, eerie blue light—the same bioluminescence Elias Thorne had described in New Geneva. But it wasn't a city. It was a library of glass cylinders, each containing glowing filaments of fiber-optic thread. "This is the Zero-Point Data," Ethan said, his voice dropping to a reverent whisper. "The encryption keys to every power grid, every satellite, and every private bank account from before the Collapse. New Geneva wants to use it to build their 'Order.' I’ve been keeping it in the dark to keep the world from burning." Aria stepped into the room, her gold dress shimmering in the blue light. She felt the weight of seven years

He then leaned down and kissed me—a slow, deep kiss that tasted like the forest and the rain, a kiss that felt like every promise he had ever made to me. "I’m tired of running from their folders, Kaima," he whispered against my lips. "Let’s go break their hardware." --- ### The Zero-Day Attack I walked back to Caspian. The boy was still standing there, the watch clicking away the seconds of our existence. "Time is a precious resource, Director," Caspian said. "Have you reached a consensus? Will you sign for the Legacy?" "No," I said. Caspian’s white eyes widened. The hands on the watch stopped spinning. "No? You would choose total deletion over a guaranteed partition? That is a mathematicall

Zero answered not looking at Raghuvendra. The silence etched in the big room again and they just sat in silence, Raghuvendra's eyes expectantly stayed on the door while Zero sat facing the glass wall watching the drizzle that was there since morning. The rain droplets slid over the glass, taking down the stopped drops one by one, the sky was of the same shade of Zero's distant mind. He had considered from the worst to the best situations, he kept it in mind that if somehow no one turned up then he might would have to go on with this case alone, he wasn't going to back away even if he was left alone. This would give Kali the confidence that her words affected him and he got scared and ran bac

Loud, echoing through the intercom system—which shouldn't have been working, but somehow was. "Lucian Drakov." The voice was synthesized. Distorted. It sounded like a choir of static. "We are Zero Day. We are the end of your line." I looked at the small monitor inside the safe room. It was battery-powered. The image was grainy, infrared. It showed the living room. Lucian was behind the overturned sofa. He was firing into the dark. The men in white suits were advancing. They had night vision goggles. Lucian was blind. "Open the door," Adrian whispered. "Daddy..."