The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 871

Chapter 871

Life after the disasters was hard, but there were still good moments.

Stella still had a sharp tongue, but she started looking out for Weasel, too.

He suspected she saw too many men trading their wives for food and feared he might do the same.

He could never do that to her.

If they ever reached that point, he would sooner let Stella sell him than make her sell herself.

The past ten years were a struggle, but he found people he could count on and caught a few lucky breaks. His children grew, and Stella grew kinder to him with every passing year.

None of them expected things to get so much worse.

After they buried their son at sea, he and Stella pushed through their grief for the sake of their remaining

child, Lucas Nixon.

They never returned to the lower compartment. Instead, the three of them found a corner elsewhere on the ship and stayed there.

If they were going to die, they would face it together.

The crew recognized a family still holding on to its humanity and allowed them to stay.

The days blurred together. Weasel barely registered what went on around him or how long they spent at sea. By the time he began to emerge from that numbness, they were at the new settlement.

He survived the journey. One of his children didn’t. (1)

Stella always seemed tough enough to handle anything, but more than half her hair turned white before

they left the ship.

Grief or no grief, they still had to find a way to live.

Stella was too weak to work now. She did what she could by growing potatoes.

Weasel went back to trading, building his business again from nothing.

The last person he expected to find here was Nicole.

She bought from him for years and once gave him medicine for the virus that spread through the smog.

He owed her his life.

He tried to smile, to show Nicole how glad he was to see her, but his face crumpled instead.

Nicole’s chest tightened as she listened.

After everything he endured, he still managed to keep Stella and Lucas alive. That was more than most

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survivors could say.

She couldn’t think of much to offer him. “You’re here now. You’ve got a chance to start over.”

Weasel pulled himself together and nodded.

“You’re right. We can start over.” Then he glanced around. “You moved in today, right? Looks like you

could use a few things. Tell me what you need. I’ll track it down.”

Even now, he couldn’t go more than a few sentences without slipping back into business.

The sudden change caught Nicole off guard. “Sure. See what you can find to help us get settled.”

“Consider it done,” Weasel said. “I’ll have this place looking like a home in no time.”

He got to his feet, ready to get started, and said goodbye.

Nicole walked him to the door.

Once she put their furniture back in place, she sat quietly.