Doomsday Revenge: Payback Time (Josie) novel Chapter 3

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‘Arthur is right, Sylvia whispered inside the room, her voice dripping with fake sympathy. The apocalypse is going to be hell. A Norm like Josie won’t survive. Selling her to a husband‘ is actually for her own good.”

Outside the door, Josie smirked.

For my own good?

They wanted to sell her into a living hell because she was a Norm.

Fine. Let’s see how generous they feel when June loses her precious power, too.

Josie was going to drain them dry. She wouldn’t just take June’s ability; she was going to inherit every single item hidden inside that vault.

But first, she needed a real weapon.

In the early days of the apocalypse, firearms worked. But later? When the Undead evolved, bullets became useless noise. True survival came down to aw, destructive superpowers and cold, hard steel.

osie drove to an old, run–down blacksmith forge on the edge of town.

The owner tried to wave her off, but she didn’t argue. She just slammed three thousand dollars in crisp cash onto his desk.

His eyes bugged out. He handed over the keys and practically sprinted out the door.

osie locked the heavy iron doors. She severed the wires to the security cameras. Then, she rolled up her sleeves and grabbed a heavy forging hammer.

You couldn’t just buy a Legendary Blade. You had to forge it yourself. One brutal strike at a time, tempering it with your own sweat and blood.

CLANG. CLANG. CLANG.

She hammered the glowing steel from dawn until midnight. Her shirt soaked with sweat, dried, and soaked again. Her hands blistered, popped, and urned to calluses.

he kept this brutal rhythm for a solid month.

lowly, the raw, ugly metal transformed into a cold, lethal Blade Core.

but the hammer didn’t just temper the steel. It tempered her.

Day by day, the fragile weakness of her past life burned away. Her muscles grew tight, dense, and explosive. She moved with the raw, coiled power of a redator.

he wrapped the Blade Core in heavy canvas, shoved it into her duffel bag, and headed back to the Quinn house.

The second she walked through the door, Sylvia rushed over, flashing a sickeningly sweet smile. “Josic, honey, you’re back! Dinner’s ready. Come eat!”

osie looked at the massive feast laid out on the mahogany table. Then she looked at the greedy, shifting eyes of the Scum Trio.

This wasn’t dinner. It was a trap.

n her past life, her desperate need for a family would have made her fall for it. But now? She was the apex predator in the room.

Josie, come sit by your dad,” Arthur said, putting on his best loving father‘ act. It made her skin crawl.

osie pulled out a chair and sat, crossing her legs.

Josie, honey, try these ribs, Sylvia cooed, piling a mountain of food onto her plate.

Skip the bullait, Josie snapped, leaning back and staring right through them. What do you want?”

Arthur sighed, rubbing his temples like a stressed patriarch. ‘Come on, Josie. I know I lost my temper the other day. But we’re family Everything I do, I lo to protect you

The truth is.. my company hit a wall. Cash flow is dead. We need liquidity, fast. Could you let me use the three million your mother left you? Just a hort–term loan until things stabilize”

osie blinked, playing the innocent, clueless daughter to perfection. Three million? Is that enough, Dad!‘

The Scum Trio’s eyes lit up. They practically nalivated.

Three million is a start, Arthur lied smoothly, his greed undeniable But leaving that cash siting in a bank is a waste. Let me mugnage it I’ll pay you

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back with double the interest.”

Josie sighed, acting resigned and exhausted. Fine. You can have the cash.”

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June couldn’t contain herself. She leaned across the table, her eyes wild with excitement. “What about the house, Sis? We could mortgage it! We could get millions more to help Dad!

Yeah, cash it all out! It’s for the family!” Arthur added quickly, his voice tight.

“Sure, whatever,” Josie shrugged lazily. But if I’m liquidating my entire life savings, shouldn’t June chip in too? I shouldn’t be the only one bleeding for this family.”

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