My Ex-Wife wanted Money, The Apocalypse wanted Everything
Ethan Carter thought his life couldn’t get any worse.
His wife betrayed him. The child he raised for nine years wasn’t his. His in-laws treated him like an endless source of money, and when he finally walked away, they expected him to come crawling back.
Then Ethan died.
But death wasn’t the end.
He woke up ninety-two days before the world was plunged into an unprecedented global freeze—a catastrophe that would destroy civilization and leave millions fighting simply to survive.
This time, Ethan knows exactly what is coming.
And he’s not going to make the same mistakes twice.
With a mysterious dimensional space at his disposal and the winning lottery numbers from his previous life still burned into his memory, Ethan turns his second chance into a race against time.
He collects his fortune, buys property, gathers resources, and begins building a survival plan that will keep him alive long after the world freezes over.
Meanwhile, his ex-wife and her family discover that the man they once considered worthless has suddenly become incredibly wealthy.
They want answers. They want his money. And they’re willing to come after him to get it.
But Ethan has only ninety-two days left.
When the freeze arrives, money and social status won’t matter anymore.
Only preparation will.
And this time, Ethan intends to be one of the few people who survives.
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Chapter: Chapter 7At the exact mention of twelve million dollars, all three of them suddenly found a remarkable burst of wild energy.Robert, Margaret, and Ryan shot out the front door like hungry dogs chasing a fresh piece of meat. They completely forgot about Victoria standing alone in the living room. They did not care about her feelings or her broken marriage. Their greedy minds were entirely focused on the massive fortune sitting directly across the street.Robert and Ryan made it to the giant mansion first. They stopped in their tracks when they found a large crowd already gathered outside the property.The massive estate sat behind an elegant and tall wrought iron fence. A beautifully landscaped front yard full of bright flowers separated the paved street from the main house. Since no one could get inside the locked gates, the curious neighbors had clustered along the metal fence. They were craning their necks high into the air for a better look at the luxury property.“Robert is here!” someone
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Chapter: Chapter 6The Bennett living room looked like a bomb had gone off inside it.Margaret was pacing back and forth in front of the fireplace, her slippers scuffing against the hardwood with every turn. Robert sat in his armchair with his arms folded tight across his chest, his face the color of raw beef. Ryan was leaning against the kitchen doorway with his phone in his hand, scrolling through something with the frantic energy of a man trying to calculate how much money he had just lost. And little Noah sat on the couch eating cereal, entirely unbothered by the adults falling apart around him.Victoria stood near the window, her back to all of them, staring at the street outside.“He divorced you.” Robert said it for the fourth time, as if repeating it would somehow change the answer. “That worthless, ungrateful little insect actually divorced you.”“I heard you the first three times, Dad.” Victoria’s voice was flat, tired, barely there.“And you just let him?” Margaret stopped pacing and spun tow
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Chapter: Chapter 5Ethan Carter woke up in a hotel suite that cost more per night than he used to earn in a week.He lay there for a moment, staring at the ceiling, letting the reality settle over him like warm water. The folder full of winning lottery tickets sat inside the hotel safe three feet from his bed. Five hundred million dollars. And today, he was going to collect every cent of it.He ordered breakfast from room service. Eggs Benedict, fresh squeezed orange juice, a pot of coffee that smelled like it had been roasted that morning, and a plate of fruit he couldn’t even name half of. When the cart arrived, he sat by the window and ate slowly, watching the city move fourteen floors below.In his previous life, breakfast had usually been whatever Victoria’s family left behind. Cold toast. Half a bowl of cereal. Sometimes nothing at all, because Margaret had decided the groceries Ethan paid for were reserved for Noah first, then Robert, then herself, and whatever remained was Ethan’s share.He fini
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Chapter: Chapter 4Victoria Bennett Carter sat on the edge of Derek Hayes’s bed that night, her phone still warm in her hand from the call she had just ended.The apartment was small but clean. Derek kept it that way because he kept everything in his life neat, organized, and under control. Including her.“He knows about Noah.” She said it quietly, staring at the floor.Derek leaned against the headboard, shirtless, scrolling through his phone like she had just told him the weather forecast. “So what? You knew this day was coming eventually.”“He has a DNA report, Derek.” Her voice tightened. “He’s threatening to send it to everyone. My parents. Ryan’s investors. Everyone.”Derek finally looked up. Not with concern, but with mild annoyance, the way a man looks at a problem that has interrupted his evening. “Then give him what he wants. Sign the papers, get the divorce, and move on.”“Just like that?” Victoria turned to face him, her eyes searching his face for something. Worry. Protectiveness. Anything.
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Chapter: Chapter 3The front door slammed into the wall hard enough to leave a fresh dent in the plaster as Ethan strode into the house.Everything was exactly as he remembered.The artificial flowers Margaret, Victoria’s mother, had arranged on the entry table like she owned the place.The staircase runner sitting slightly crooked because Robert, Victoria’s father, had installed it himself and refused to let anyone fix it.And there was that distinct, lingering aroma of Victoria’s perfume, a scent that had, year by suffocating year, entirely overwritten the smell of the home his parents had built.This was his house. His parents had raised him here. They had died here. And somehow, without Ethan ever noticing, the Bennett family had moved in and colonized every corner of it like termites hollowing out a foundation from the inside.Hearing the door, Robert marched out of the living room wearing the grave expression he always adopted before issuing orders disguised as family advice.He was a thick necked
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Chapter: Chapter 2The sound was soft and clean, two sheets of paper separated at the fold.Ignoring the way Victoria’s jaw dropped beside him, Ethan turned directly to the account manager and spoke with absolute clarity.“Miss, remove every authorization my wife currently has on my accounts.” He placed both hands flat on the desk and looked the woman straight in the eye. “From now on, no transfer, withdrawal, or account change is to be approved unless I appear here personally with valid identification.”The account manager hesitated for only a second, glancing between Ethan and the stunned woman beside him, before nodding. “Right away, Mr. Carter.”Victoria stared at him as though she had just watched a stranger crawl out of her husband’s skin. Her lips parted but nothing came out. For three full seconds, she simply could not believe what she had just heard.Then she moved.“No. Don’t listen to him!” She hurried toward the desk, her heels clicking sharp against the marble floor. Her voice was high and
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