End Times, Surviving with My Beastly Army novel Chapter 205

Chapter 205 They Fight

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“Everything you have exists because of me, and you can’t even manage gratitude. Instead, you’re dumping every last thing on my head You’re a coward, and you know it!

“You hit me, and now you have the audacity to do it again. Noah, I have been tolerating you for a very long time!

Zelda had passed through rage and come out the other side of it. Whatever grip she’d had on herself was completely gone.

She clawed at him, bit down, and dragged her nails across every inch of exposed skin she could reach, her whole body operating on pure, unhinged fury. Noah hadn’t seen any of it corning, and by the time the pain finally registered, his face and arms were already covered in welts and scratches.

The pain snapped him back, and his temper erupted. “Zelda, you think you’re the only one who’s been holding back? I’ve been tolerating you just as long!

“I’ve never met a woman as repulsive as you in my life. If you hadn’t pushed so hard to buy Robin’s property back then, we wouldn’t have been flat broke when the apocalypse hit and couldn’t afford a single supply run.

“You think you’re something? Without me, you’d be nothing at all.

“And now you’re acting like I dragged you into that man’s bed? You walked in there yourself. And from what I could tell, you were completely at ease.

“Stop performing like you suffered through it. You enjoyed every moment, and this wounded act of yours is the most nauseating thing I’ve ever had to sit through.”

They crashed into each other in a writhing knot of blows and screaming. Every time the thought of Outerville surfaced in either of their minds, the fire burning inside them climbed hotter.

They couldn’t aim it at the enforcers, and they couldn’t aim it at Robin, so they turned it on each other with everything they had.

Two people who’d once loved each other, now tearing one another apart in the wreckage of a dead world. The words they threw weren’t just cruel. They were surgical, aimed straight at the most exposed and tender places, as if destroying the other was the only thing left worth doing,

Robin watched every second of it and felt nothing. Two words drifted through her mind.

Rabid dogs.

In her previous life, this wretched pair had survived comfortably beneath her protection, and that shelter had kept them from ever turning on one another. As long as they had her to drain, they stayed united, and the only person who ever paid the price was her.

But in this life, without her carrying them, the apocalypse had peeled everything else back. Survival had swallowed sentiment whole, and every beautiful memory they’d ever shared had curdled into a joke.

In front of survival, nothing else was worth a thing.

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Chapter 205 They Fight

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“Get them out of my sight,” Robin said, her voice flat and disinterested. “They’re giving me a headache.”

The two enforcers moved instantly. They raised their weapons and trained them on Noah and Zelda without a moment of hesitation. “Your patrol position’s been revoked. Strip that uniform off. Right now,”

“Fine. Fine, Robin. Have it your way.”

There was nothing left to fight for, and both of them knew it. They’d exhausted themselves tearing into each other, and now they just sat slumped on the ground, wearing the hollow expressions of people watching their last light go out.

“Stop stalling and take it off,” the enforcer said, his voice cutting and cold. “Every second you waste is a second I’m losing patience.

“And when it runs out, I’ll skin you alive!”

A blade pressed against Noah’s throat, steady and merciless, catching the light like a sliver of ice. Noah’s shaking fingers fumbled immediately to his buttons. “Taking it off. I’m taking it off right now…”

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The terror of what the next second might bring was written all over his face.

He stripped off the uniform and the pants and let them drop to the ground where he stood.

Noah stared at nothing, his expression hollow and lost, clearly unable to accept that Outerville was where he was headed.

“Stop dragging it out. Both of you, move!”

One of the enforcers yanked them both to their feet and shoved them forward with zero ceremony.

Zelda stumbled from the force of it and barely caught herself. “Robin, you’re completely heartless. Everything you do comes back around!”

The words hadn’t even finished leaving her mouth before an enforcer’s boot drove hard into her back. “Watch what you say. You’re going to disrespect our guest right in front of us?”

They’d arrived full of swagger, completely certain of their power over others. They leflike this. Stripped, battered, and shoved through the streets like refuse.

Robin watched them disappear and shook her head. She felt nothing at all.

She could’ve had the enforcers end them on the spot.

But where was the satisfaction in that?

In her previous life, these two had made sure her death was as brutal and degrading as possible. She wasn’t about to hand them a clean, painless exit in this one.

She’d seen Outerville with her own eyes, and she knew what that place did to people over time. Sometimes being alive was so much worse than being dead.

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