Chapter 1

The day the zombie horde broke out, I tore up my assignment roster, forcing myself to stay behind in the doomed Zone C.

I held on until dawn the next day, just long enough to hear Caleb’s loud broadcast: Celeste had found a new oasis.

Her discovery, he claimed, would be humanity’s last hope. Only then did I finally breathe a sigh of relief.

As the horde smashed through the doors, I detonated all my explosives.

In my previous life, Caleb had made sure I drew the winning lot. He used my luck-boosting ability to easily find the oasis and become a leader.

He promised me that as soon as I found the oasis, he would send away all the other women he was seeing.

I believed him.

But when I lit the bonfire signal, what arrived wasn’t his support, but betrayal.

“Celeste has no powers, she needs my protection more. I just want her and her child to be respected by everyone in this apocalypse. But you, you try to steal even this little bit of credit.”

“She got a fever, terrified by zombies, just looking for you. I’ll make you feel ten thousand times her pain.”

He chained me to a car and dragged me until I was torn to shreds by zombies.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day the horde erupted.

This time, I’d let them have their savior dream.