Doomsday Revenge: Payback Time (Josie) novel Chapter 151

I know it’s a lot to ask,” he added, “but let me be real with you. We might look like a bunch of old geezers, but we’ve still got plenty of miles left in us. We can tend the crops, cook up chemicals, and build whatever you need. We won’t be dead weight.”

“Wait, I have to ask,” Josie interrupted, her eyes narrowing. “Besides my storage space, why me? Why choose me over the Base? I wan

the truth.”

The Director let out a heavy sigh. “The Base? You think those people are still the government? Look at what they’re doing. Is that how ‘officials‘ act? Look at their soldiers–do they look like they’re protecting the people anymore?”

“I might be old and half–blind, but I can see the writing on the wall. The Base has become one man’s private playground. I won’t even get into the details of the things they do there. It’s not a society anymore; it’s a goddamn dictatorship.”

bunch of old farts with one foot he grave. If we went to the Base, they’d kick us to the curb like trash within three day:

poses death when they can stay topside for a few more years?”

be old, but we still want to

not be some saint, eit

s different! Even a

the Director replied handle? You’d get be

and be a baby

Josie arche

Ten

hat if I turn out to be a tyrant too?”

her people. Hell, an Empress is even better. Look at Empress Catherine–she crushed bvious thing in the world. “Even if you filled a harem with guys, how many could you really ore they bored you. And I don’t buy for a second that you’re the type who wants to stay home

new perspective. But you’ve got a point. I’m definitely not having kids.”

ad then the agony of labor? That was a straigh

sn’t about to put herself in a vulnerable p

endants,” she couldn’t care less. She could

world. It was the damn apocalypse. W

trap.

life; why would she want a kid?

to suffer?

asanity.

to Captain Shaw about y place. You’re tough,

1. d. “High praise

Surface, you look cold and ruthless, but deep down, your head juit. You’re built for leadership.”

are going to win me over.”

his shoulders slumping. “Aside from this base and you, what are my what the world has become out there.”

its, too.”

at hold them back anymore.”

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