The Last Sheriff of Town
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Introduction
Reborn fifteen days before the apocalypse, when 70-degree heat turns Texas into a wasteland, my ice powers will become the only oasis. In this life, the police station basement will no longer shelter refugees—it will only store my supplies, and the corpses of those who dare to trespass.
Chapter 1
"Hah—don't eat me!"
I jolted awake, my lungs gasping for air like a broken bellows.
No 70-degree heat. No suffocating stench of blood.
Above me, an old central air conditioner hummed noisily, blowing moldy cool air against my neck.
Like a drowning man pulled from the water, I slumped in my office chair, drenched in cold sweat.
The bite marks on my hands were gone. My forehead was intact.
What the hell? Wasn't I devoured by the townspeople?
Trembling, I looked up at the electronic calendar on the wall, its red digits glowing:
July 15, 2028, 9:00 AM.
I wasn't dead—or rather, I had returned to fifteen days before the super solar storm that would destroy the global power grid and turn Texas into a 70-degree crematorium.
The absurd and desperate memories from my previous life gnawed at my heart like venomous snakes.
In my last life, I was an irredeemably sanctimonious fool.
I had carved the Marine Corps motto "Never Back Down" into my bones, treating this badge as my sacred faith.
When the heat apocalypse arrived and extreme temperatures destroyed human civilization's order, I awakened the [Absolute Zero] ability—I could release cold air, freeze objects, lower room temperatures, and shield people from the lethal heat.
When the townspeople were dying one by one from the extreme heat, I used my powers to protect them, shared my supplies with them. I thought that as long as I sacrificed for them, we could survive together.
I turned the police station into a shelter, gave the last drop of clean water to old Bob's grandson, and used myself like a perpetual cooling machine.
But what did I get in return?
When temperatures approached 70 degrees, when every breath made me cough blood and my powers could no longer cover everyone, those townspeople I had selflessly fed—not one of them showed mercy for my exhaustion.
They thought I wasn't "trying hard enough," that I was "selfishly hoarding the cold air."
Finally, my fiancée Lily and her secret lover incited a riot, smashed my skull with crowbars, and devoured me along with the others.
They thought eating me would grant them the same abilities.
What a horrific and ignorant notion.
But faced with death in the apocalypse, even the most absurd ideas become reality when driven by terror.
In that moment of death, I finally saw the bloody truth—
In the face of extreme disaster, civilization and morality are nothing but tissue paper.
These townspeople weren't helpless victims needing protection—they were demons in human skin with insatiable appetites.
I tried to play God and save them, but they treated me as livestock to be consumed alive.
"Fuck faith. Fuck the oath to protect and serve."
I grabbed the police star badge from my desk and hurled it into the trash.
Visible ice-blue frost emanated from my palm, instantly freezing and shattering the hot coffee on my desk.
My ability had been reborn with me!
If kindness only deserves to be devoured, then in this life, Sheriff Jack is dead.
From now on, the power of "Absolute Zero" will be my exclusive divine right to revel in this hell.
I'll be the most selfish, most brutal specter in this apocalypse, watching coldly as these demons tear each other apart under the scorching sun, turning to ash!
Click.
The wooden door to the sheriff's office was gently pushed open.
My fiancée Lily walked in wearing a low-cut lace camisole, swaying her voluptuous hips.
The air instantly filled with the sickly sweet stench of cheap perfume.
"Jack, honey, did you have a nightmare? Why are you so sweaty?" Lily cooed as she approached the desk, leaning half her body over it, deliberately exposing a large expanse of pale skin as she reached to caress my cheek.
Looking at this face that had bitten flesh from my neck in my previous life, my barely calmed blood began boiling with rage again.
"I came here today to ask you a favor." She batted those innocent blue eyes, hiding the calculation beneath. "That shipment of Bill's you impounded in the station's front garage—could you be a dear and sign the release? It's just some wilderness medical supplies anyway. No need to make enemies with the biker gang over such a small matter, right?"
Medical supplies?
I leaned back in my leather chair, staring at her like she was already a corpse.
That was two full trucks of black market contraband from the US-Mexico border!
Packed with cases of military-grade broad-spectrum antibiotics, high-potency burn medication, high-purity tactical serums, and boxes of OxyContin!
In the extreme heat apocalypse half a month from now, when skin would blister and ulcerate within minutes, these temperature-sensitive medications would be ten thousand times more precious than tons of gold.
Even setting aside the apocalypse, she wanted me—a sheriff—to hand controlled substances back to some biker gang thug?
"Release them? Hand them over to your syphilis-ridden lover Bill?" My voice was ice-cold and cutting.
Lily's mask instantly froze, her face turning pale as a sheet. "How do you know—what are you talking about? How could I possibly be with Bill..."
"Shut your filthy mouth! You shameless whore!"
I kicked back my leather chair and lunged forward with my massive frame, radiating menacing hostility.
My right hand seized her prized golden hair, slamming her face hard against the heavy wooden desk!
THUD!
The sickening thump was followed by Lily's piercing scream like a slaughtered pig.
Blood immediately gushed from her delicate nostrils.
"Put away that nauseating act!" I pressed her head down hard, my pupils filled with savagery. "You think I don't know that every weekend when you claim to visit your mother in Austin, you're in some motel's filthy bed, rutting like a bitch in heat under that bastard?!"
"Jack! You're insane! Let me go! Ah—it hurts!"
"Hurts?" A brutal cold smile twisted my lips.
The next second, my right hand's "Absolute Zero Field" erupted without restraint!
Bone-piercing cold burst forth, thick frost creeping up Lily's face along my fingers with crackling sounds.
"AHHHHHHH—!"
The extreme cold instantly turned her skin purple and necrotic.
Lily's screams warped with absolute terror, tears freezing into tiny crystals the moment they left her eyes. In the face of death-bringing cold, she finally realized I was no longer the fool she could manipulate.
"Listen, you filthy whore." I leaned close to her ear, pronouncing each word like a death sentence. "Those two trucks of military supplies are mine now.
Step foot in this station again, and I swear I'll rip out your intestines and use them as a noose around Bill's neck!"
Like discarding a bag of rotten garbage, I grabbed her collar and kicked her out the door.
Amidst the shocked stares of officers in the hallway, I mercilessly slammed shut the bulletproof iron door of the sheriff's office with a resounding BANG, locking all the bolts.
Lily's sobs—mixed with fear and humiliation—echoed from outside.
Listening to those beautiful cries, I took a deep breath. Supplies, weapons, cryogenic powers.
With these, I would be the only god in the apocalypse.
Suddenly—
The police radio on my desk crackled frantically, its red warning light flashing wildly.
Deputy Sheriff Davis's terror-stricken voice came through: "Station calling Sheriff! Jack! We've got a major situation! Bill's got thirty bikers on Harleys blocking the station entrance! They're fully armed—some even have machetes! They say... if we don't hand over the goods and the person, they're going to level this place!"
I looked out the window at the blinding Texas sunlight and slowly racked the slide of my Glock, producing a crisp metallic click.
"Let them come."
Last Chapters
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Old resentment turns into manipulation. Loyalty becomes betrayal. And the people Pete trusts begin hiding secrets that threaten to destroy everything he's built.
Then someone comes for the people I love.
Suddenly, this is no longer about whether Pete can earn my forgiveness.
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Whether he can protect the son he never knew existed.
Whether he can uncover the truth before the people closest to him destroy everything he has finally learned to value.
Along the way, we'll lose people we thought would always stand beside us, I'll be forced to confront wounds I've spent six years trying to bury, and the family we're slowly building will be tested in ways neither of us could have imagined.
Because sometimes love isn't the hardest thing to find. Sometimes it's the hardest thing to survive.
Pete once believed power meant never needing anyone and I once believed surviving him meant leaving him behind.
We were both wrong.
Because some bonds refuse to die, some betrayals cut deeper than rejection and some people don't come back into your life to give you a second chance.
They come back to show you exactly what you almost lost.
Pete Leadsilver lost me once.
This time, he'll have to fight to keep the family he never knew he needed.
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Perhaps then they would stop controlling my every move. Maybe my brothers would stop resenting me. Perhaps I wouldn’t feel so invisible anymore.
No one believed I could do it—not even my mate, Alpha Jaxon Trevane.
The night I planned to tell him... I found him tangled in bed with my best friend.
Heartbroken and humiliated, I left everything behind and went to Elite alone.
But the academy isn’t the fairytale I dreamed about.
Beneath the grand halls and traditions, a brutal game is being played.
The four ruling Alphas of the North, South, East, and West fight for power, dominance... and now, for me.
A virgin. Untouched. Unclaimed. The prize they all want.
There’s the mate who shattered my heart and swears he’ll win me back.
The brilliant strategist who wants me as his Luna.
The dangerous playboy who promises no one will ever touch me but him.
And the cold, possessive Alpha who watches from the shadows—and would destroy anyone who dares to take me from him.
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Old wounds reopen, grief masquerades as rage, and love refuses to stay buried. As parenthood binds them together and the past demands accountability, Emily and Ryan must face the question neither of them is ready to answer: is broken trust the end of their story… or the beginning of a love forged through loss, forgiveness, and brutal honesty?
Mated To My Nemesis
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Ace had a nine-year revenge in the making. A journalist had destroyed his sister's life and left no fingerprints. Now the man's daughter was standing in his garage with a camera, and Ace had been the one to open the door.
His wolf chooses a mate he never wanted and couldn't shake — not in the paddock, not on the track, not even at 200mph where nothing else had ever followed him before.
For the first time in his life, he couldn't have it all.
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Everyone expects Atreus to treat his fiancée’s scholarship sister like everyone else does—as if she doesn’t matter.
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"Don't fall in love with one piece," he warns her, over a board neither of them treats like a game anymore. "It punishes the person who only sees half of it."
Mara doesn't understand why the boy who's supposed to make her life harder keeps quietly making it easier—not until she realizes the anonymous stranger she's been writing to every week already has a name.
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He doesn't know he's writing to her, either.
By the time they find out, it's too late to stop what's already happening. Far too dangerous for anyone to find out.
In an empty studio, in the middle of a rainstorm, she asks him: 'Am I the kind of girl who kisses a boy engaged to my sister?'
He doesn't answer.
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She fell anyway.
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Dante Moretti.
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He sneaks into the woods for me. We share a deep, hungry kiss under the moonlight.
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Right there, on the neck of the man I just risked my soul to save...
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My gaze snapped to his. He was smiling, causing my heart to skip a painful beat. Before I could respond, the music began, and my body instinctively reacted to the sweet melody.
I found myself molded to Lex's will, my feet irresistibly following the dance steps.
The crowd gasped as Lex pulled me into a more intimate position, his hands roaming over my body in a seductive manner.
The experience was both terrifying and magical, allowing me to feel every longing emotion through the dance.
I soon found myself lost in his arms.
When the music finally stopped, my arms were wrapped around his neck, his hands resting on my back, our noses almost touching. He gazed deeply into my eyes.
The ballroom fell silent.
Was he about to kiss me?
Lilly’s life was never easy; she lost her memory and family in a blazing fire. Angelica found and took her in—only to make her a slave to the household.
Years of torment and abuse left Lilly weak, vulnerable, and believing she was without a wolf, but that didn't mean that all hope was lost.
At night, in her dreams, he would patiently wait for her—the man who brought sunshine into her darkest moments.
They would dance the night away, but as dawn approached, he would vanish into the morning sun.
Lilly had given up hope of finding a mate, having a family, and leading a normal life.
But things are about to drastically change for her...
Secrets, lies, betrayal... and a baby on the way.
What if Lilly wasn't wolf-less? What if it was all a lie?
What if she had a living family? Would she stay and bond with them or make a run for freedom?
