Reborn Before The Apocalypse:No more Mercy

Elena Vasquez has spent fifteen years becoming invisible.

She learned to anticipate her husband's moods before he felt them. She learned to swallow her own voice until it got quiet. She learned to be small enough to fit into the spaces other people left for her. She was good at it. She was excellent at it. She was *disappearing*.

She doesn't know exactly when Marcus started fucking her best friend. She just knows that by the time the apocalypse hits, he won't even hesitate. When the tidal surge comes and there's only one spot left on the raft, he'll choose his sister. He'll choose his child. He'll choose the woman who's been in his bed for two years.

He won't choose Elena.

She dies knowing this. She dies knowing she wasted everything—her gifts, her wealth, her bleeding heart—on people who saw her as a resource to exploit.

Then she wakes up.

365 days before the apocalypse begins, Elena opens her eyes in the master bedroom of a life she's about to burn to the ground. This time, she won't be invisible. This time, she won't be kind. This time, when people come begging for her help as the world collapses around them, she will remember exactly what they did when she needed *them*.

She will watch them suffer.

And she will smile.