The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 799

Chapter 799

As long as Mount Evercrest stood, Nicole believed they could still hope there was dry land somewhere.

However, disaster after disaster broke the Earth’s backbone until nothing could hold it together.

Even while preparing for the worst, Nicole clung to a small spark of hope. Now that, too, was gone.

She stared at the empty stretch of ocean where the mountain once stood, unable to take it in.

After hours of rocking on the ocean, Poppy started feeling sick again, but she didn’t say anything.

Then she spotted a survivor clinging to a makeshift raft.

He was too far away for her to make out his facial features, but she could see how weak he was. There was no telling how much longer he could hold on. (1)

She was lucky to have Zeph and Nicole.

The escape pod rocked, but at least she had room to move. It kept her out of the sun and wind, and she never worried about food or water.

Poppy stayed quiet. There was nothing she could do to save him. She looked away before it hurt even more.

That night, after Poppy fell asleep, Nicole went back into her storage space to rest.

Over the years, she often wondered whether to tell Poppy the truth.

Nicole was careful, and Zeph always covered for her when she took something out. But Poppy was growing up, and she was smart.

Behind that innocent face, very little escaped her. Keeping the secret from her was getting harder than Nicole could handle.

They would be going in and out of the storage space more often now, and Nicole could only come up with so many excuses. She suspected Poppy already knew and simply chose not to say anything.

Poppy was sweet and soft-spoken, but she kept her thoughts to herself. Some things she wouldn’t even share with Zeph, let alone Nicole.

She knew how to make people underestimate her and turn it to her advantage.

That was a useful skill in the apocalypse. No one would fool her easily. If anything, she would pick their pockets and leave them thanking her.

Still, Nicole worried.

For now, the three of them were on the same side, with nothing pulling them in different directions. But a few years from now, Poppy might marry.

Nicole was once just as close to Jeremy and Hughie. They were practically inseparable growing up, and Jeremy even took a hit from a brick meant for her.

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Eventually, though, they each found someone to build a life with.

They were still a group, at least on the surface, but their priorities shifted. Their partners came first, and everyone else came after.

Jeremy wouldn’t take that hit for her now. He had Diana to think about.

Nicole felt the same way. She would help her friends out of trouble, but she wouldn’t risk her life for them.

She couldn’t make up her mind, so she left the decision to Zeph.

He thought it over carefully.

Over the years, he took Poppy’s education seriously and kept Nicole’s collection of downloaded fantasy novels out of her reach, so Poppy didn’t even know what a storage space was.

Even if she noticed them pulling things out of thin air, she wouldn’t necessarily realize people could go in

and out, too.

But Poppy kept plenty to herself. He couldn’t be sure she hadn’t figured that out already. They were close, but she didn’t tell him everything. He had no idea just how much she kept from him.

“Let’s keep it to ourselves for now. If we can’t hide it anymore, we’ll tell her the storage space is mine.”

If the disasters ended, civilization recovered, and Poppy started wanting the space for herself, they could

say it was gone.

Being a man was hard. Being a good man was harder.

The storage space was Nicole’s. She took such good care of Poppy because of him, and no one could guarantee that people would never change.

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