[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-surviving-the-apocalypse-with-my-yandere-ex-girl":3,"chapter-surviving-the-apocalypse-with-my-yandere-ex-girl-surviving-the-apocalypse-with-my-yandere-ex-girl-chapter-17":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Surviving the Apocalypse With My Yandere Ex-Girlfriend",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1745788,2231,"Chapter 17: I can behave","surviving-the-apocalypse-with-my-yandere-ex-girl-chapter-17",17,"\u003Cp>I folded my arms as the terrain outside the window shifted into something sickeningly familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hyde Park.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The drive had stretched for hours— long, cramped, and suffocating with the stranger sitting in our backseat like some glitter-dusted grenade waiting to go off. Most of the silence wasn’t even because of the mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the closer we got, the harder it became to ignore what waited beyond the dusted cracked glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The infected were everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in swarms— but enough that you could feel their presence like a fever crawling under your skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were curled into fetal lumps against broken storefronts, trembling or twitching, like they were waiting for nightfall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others were tearing into whoever they could catch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The streets were a bloodbath. Hyde Park wasn’t as bad when I got here before. It used to be a ghost town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it was like a graveyard in motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The CPD? Well...I guess they gave up on this neighborhood too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever I looked too long, bile crawled up my throat. Terri didn’t even try to fight it. She’d thrown up into a paper bag Aubrey had tossed her earlier. The sound alone made my stomach churn more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aubrey exhale was sharp through gritted teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila barely reacted to the carnage surrounding her, her eyes cold, calculating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the blonde girl?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expression didn’t shift even once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not at the bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not at the screaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not at the infected ripping someone apart right outside her fucking window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stared at her too long, trying to piece together the equation that didn’t add up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why the hell would she be hitchhiking alone trying to get a ride to the south side?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did she have people up here or something?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Further more, no one walked a world gone to shit with perfume still clinging to their skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something was off about her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Way off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But my mind didn’t have time to linger—because the Land Rover was slowing, tires crunching over shattered glass and dried blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were at the warehouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exact spot where me and Lila had almost gotten killed by Sheldon and his little posse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The memory slammed into me like a punch to the ribs— the screaming, the guns, the ropes tight against my limbs, the smell of blood and metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aubrey parked beside the 2 humvees. My mouth went dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t even look at her when she spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First thing we do is check if the Crucible got here first,\" She said through a mask of calm. \"You keep an eye on our stranger, alright? Make sure she doesn’t try anything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t even nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Couldn’t breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aubrey’s eyes lingered on me— just long enough for her face to soften before she sighed and stepped out. Terri followed, still pale, still trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila stayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a second, she didn’t move, a shadow cast over her expression—her gaze fixed on the blonde girl beside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tension thickened instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Lila leaned forward, her voice barely above a whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Try anything, and I’ll kill you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She meant what she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The car door slammed as she stepped out\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blonde girl didn’t look frightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Infact, she just smiled— like she’d been waiting for Lila to say that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment passed as I watched figures disappear into the warehouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My stomach began to churn as i suddenly felt pathetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Terri— a terrified and trembling Terri— had stepped out of the car, and I was still glued to my seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aubrey had noticed. I knew she had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she didn’t push me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she thought I was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your girlfriend’s pretty cute.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice snapped through the quiet, disrupting my thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I sighed, my brows tightening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t owe this weirdo a response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence stretched between us, heavy enough to press against my lungs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the rearview mirror, I caught her frown as she realized she was being ignored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Think you’re too cute to give me response, douchebag?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I breathed in. She continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course she did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boys like you... always gotta play hard to get unless the girl’s showing a little skin, huh? Can’t even answer a simple question unless she’s in a bikini????\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hell was she even talking about?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re fucking scum.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’d had enough. I turned to tell her to shut the hell up—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—but froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gun aimed right at my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the hell...?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the fuck did she even pull that from?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get in the front seat and drive,\" Her tone was eerily calm after her weird little tantrum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My blood turned to ice. My lip quivered, face growing pale like I’d lost my tan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blush bloomed on her face like this was some twisted romance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That fucking face you’re making... it’s making me so horny.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She cooed the last word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My breath hitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? Playing nice now that your life’s on the line all of a sudden? You’re just a shallow slut, aren’t you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pressed the gun to my head, her fingers teasing the trigger. I closed my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"MaybeI’ll play along if you behave.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She fired a shot into the ceiling. My ears rang. My vision flickered. She laughed harder at my reaction, like my fear was a toy she was shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears welled up in my eyes without permission. This was so pathetic. I was gonna die to this nutjob.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was how it ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You deaf? Drive! NOW!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body moved before my brain did. I scrambled over the console, hands shaking as I slammed the gas pedal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the rearview mirror—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aubrey burst out of the warehouse with a panicked expression as she saw her land rover speeding off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only to freeze as a gun pressed to her skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure behind Aubrey holding the gun...she was oddly familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liberty spikes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bleached...at the tip. The same ones I saw on the metro to Hyde park.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Metal glittered across her face like a joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tilted her head, a slow, eerie smile spreading across her lips as she waved at me— mocking, deliberate. My stomach twisted into knots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could hear the faint rattle of the land rover’s engine over the distant echo of gunfire inside the warehouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despair hit me like a freight train as I realized this was a blatant set up. My palms clenched the steering wheel until my knuckles turned white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eyes on the fucking road, cutie.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything went to shit faster than I realized.\u003C\u002Fp>",1084,"2026-06-06T16:52:01.117Z",1,"novelbin.me","ad7d865cd2d4a4d8a8b6549f77df06ece86eae8038897212b1fdb4124d4fbca2","surviving-the-apocalypse-with-my-yandere-ex-girl-chapter-167","surviving-the-apocalypse-with-my-yandere-ex-girl-chapter-166",202,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-apocalypse-with-my-yandere-ex-girl-cover.jpg"]