The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 929

Chapter 929

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Chapter 929

The wolf could have brought others with her. Worse, she could have led survivors straight to their door.

Zeph paused. “You don’t trust Cola?”

“Have you seen how he’s been acting lately?”

Nicole was close to tears from sheer frustration. She was finally calming down, and now they were right

back where they started.

“Let’s give it some time,” Zeph said. “We don’t have to assume the worst.”

Cola’s behavior was certainly out of character. He probably chased the wolf at first to fight her or drive her off, then grew attached to her along the way.

Zeph could understand how it happened.

Clever as Cola was, he was still a dog, and instinct played a part in everything he did. They couldn’t expect him to reason things through like a person.

Nicole reluctantly admitted he had a point. Even Cola’s intelligence only went so far, and she couldn’t expect him to grasp every danger they faced.

For now, she would keep an eye on him. One more stunt, though, and he wasn’t going anywhere.

She barely slept that night. A wolf was loose in their home, and any animal that survived this long in the frozen north was hardly harmless.

Fortunately, nothing happened. In the morning, Nicole quietly cracked open the bedroom door and found the two curled up in Cola’s bed.

Cola slept with his front legs draped around the wolf. Meanwhile, the wolf heard the faint noise from the bedroom and immediately opened her eyes.

Her stare was cold and threatening. Beside her, Cola snored on, looking so comfortable that Nicole half expected him to start drooling.

The difference between them couldn’t have been clearer.

The wolf watched the door for a moment. When nothing happened, she rested her head on Cola’s and drifted into a light sleep.

As soon as he woke, they started nuzzling each other.

Nicole hadn’t even eaten breakfast, and already she was watching another display of affection. It was almost too much.

For ten years, Cola barely gave another dog a second glance. Now he was so different that she almost wondered if someone had switched dogs on her.

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Nicole crawled back into bed. “What happened to him? He’s like a completely different dog.”

Apparently, all it took for Cola to forget the woman who raised him was a girlfriend.

Zeph gave her an amused look. “Should I be taking this personally?”

Maybe Cola only seemed aloof because he never met anyone who interested him. Now that he did, he clearly wasn’t holding back.

Nicole considered that and couldn’t find much to argue with. Perhaps she was taking it a little too hard.

When she finally opened the bedroom door, Cola bounded over, tail wagging. He glanced back at the wolf and whined, coaxing her closer.

She approached slowly, still wary. Her tail stayed low, but she gave it two tentative wags.

Nicole was almost impressed. Cola apparently gave her a few pointers on getting along with the family.

It reminded her of a nervous girlfriend meeting her boyfriend’s mother for the first time. And to Nicole’s surprise, she was rather pleased.

At least Cola still seemed to have some influence over her.

If the wolf learned to trust them and could live safely in their home, Nicole was willing to welcome her.