Episode 2

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A blinding light forced him to close his eyes for a few seconds, after which he could see around him normally. Noah studied the place with a bit of fear because, according to his perception, he should already be dead... but there he was. In a small empty room.

Wherever he looked, all he could see was white. The walls, the ceiling, and the floor were white. Even his clothes were white. He was wearing a kind of gown and was barefoot. There was nothing else on his body. Curiously, he checked the place where he had been stabbed. To his surprise, the mortal wound had disappeared, although it retained a slight mark on the spot, which was almost invisible if you didn't pay attention. It was a thin line etched on his smooth skin. Noah ran his fingers over it and felt the relief.

"There seems to be nothing..."

His curiosity satisfied, he walked from side to side, circling the room several times, but never finding a way out.

In such a desolate environment, all he could do was endure the terrible loneliness.

Noah sat on the floor, and while he was crushed by the silence and nostalgia, he couldn't help but remember his final seconds. It seemed that he had taken his last breath saving his husband. And most alarmingly, he had died in his arms.

For some reason, shame made his white face blush.

"Four years of marriage, and it's only now that you learn to be kind... idiot!" he scolded himself.

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An unknown amount of time passed, and he discovered that he no longer felt hunger, thirst, or sleep. Which alarmed him even more. Was he still human at least?

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It could have been only seconds or centuries. Noah never knew, but when he thought he would remain inside the empty room until the end of time, a simple table with a chair appeared out of nowhere, right in the center of the whole place. The two new objects were also white.

With a thousand questions in his heart, Noah approached the table and saw that there was also a book in the center of it. Thinking that inside the pages he might find some kind of answer, he flipped through it without wasting a second.

From the pink cover, it looked like a romance novel. As he held it closer, he saw the title: "My Beloved Angel".

As soon as he read the first page, Noah froze. He stared at the book in amazement, and above all, slightly furious.

He wanted to throw it away, but resisted the urge and kept reading. Perhaps out of boredom, or a bit of morbid curiosity, he read the whole book in three hours.

He glanced at the last page and closed the book casually. He saw the cover and sighed. Then, he took the book angrily and threw it against the wall with all his might. The poor book was thus destroyed. The pages scattered and flew across the floor. Although Noah didn't even care. It seemed that this set of sheets was something dirty to look at, and did not deserve a second glance.

"Damn trash book!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. "Who dared to write this? Is it a god or fate? Well, screw you!" he declared without a hint of remorse.

As if in mockery, the scattered leaves began to tremble and soon they had gathered again, forming a book in perfect condition.

Noah watched the whole process, and although he felt some fear, he ignored it and clenched his fists.

"Screw you! That's not what happened."

When he first opened his eyes and realized that he was probably in some strange kind of limbo, he did not complain or cry. Since, in the end, it had been his decision to block that knife. Right or wrong, he had chosen it.

But after reading this "romantic" book, he couldn't help himself and burst into tears. Not out of sadness or regret, but out of anger.

"My Beloved Angel" was a story about an alpha who grew up in filth, and despite that, shone like a diamond. Enduring the hardships that life threw at him, he succeeded. He was even forced to put up with a pathetic beta who clung to him. But everything took a turn when he entered college, because there he met his destined one, a precious omega, pure and noble of heart. What was a common, ordinary beta next to this beauty? Nothing.

Of course, things were not so easy for the lovebirds, as both had relationships behind them. The alpha was harassed by the beta day and night, and the omega was harassed by his paralyzed fiance, who also turned out to be the main villain. Poor lovebirds!

As if fate was compensating them, a series of secrets came to light some time later, such as the alpha being the son of a rich family, and so on and so forth. After several similar entanglements - and for some reason that is completely omitted - the beta who was harassing the alpha underwent a transformation and his secondary gender changed to omega.

Anyone would think that the adorable couple's problems would get worse, only that fate blessed them again.

This new omega was forced to marry the paralyzed villain, after being found in a very embarrassing situation. This solved the problems of the lovebirds! Who, by the way, were left as the cheated victims.

After that, would anyone dare to point the finger at them for "formalizing" their relationship?

How convenient!

It's halfway through the novel that this repulsive omega meets his end at the hands of the villain's lover. And so, half of the poor protagonists' lives are solved. No one mourns the death of the forgotten omega, because no one cares. And many even said he deserved it, for climbing into other people's beds with hidden tricks.

Yes, the protagonists give a few "kind" words for that murdered boy, but it's not even half a sentence. They move on with their lives, holding hands and smiling.

It's just that not everything is rosy for long, because the best is yet to come. They still have to deal with the main villain, who has the shamelessness to accuse their families of a list of quite serious crimes. As the shadow closes in on the bright futures of both protagonists, the alpha summons the villain to the top of a cliff. For what reason? For more drama of course!

And in the end, because of his own shamelessness, the villain falls off the cliff and dies crashing against the rocks. Thus, all the main enemies of the protagonists disappear and they dedicate themselves to loving each other, because the other small villains don't even deserve their attention. A simple wave of the hand, and they are swept away until they disappear.

The end, ta-da.

Burning tears streamed down Noah's cheeks. Every word he read, he felt it ignite his fighting spirit.

"None of that is true!" he reproached. The story he had lived was totally different. It was true that the scenes seemed to be the same, but the background was something very different.

"It's not fair that this kind of sham gets away with it," he muttered as he walked over to where the book lay. With resentment in his heart, he stepped on it hard. "They are the real villains! Is that how you choose your favorites, god, destiny, or whatever you are? Does this kind of treacherous being deserve happiness, but I don't?" he ended up shouting, so loudly that his throat hurt. He roughly wiped away his tears, and continued: "What did I do wrong, huh? Fall in love with that idiot? Follow the words of my mother...of that woman? Fuck that! When I found out they loved each other, I stepped aside! Didn't I deserve even an ounce of compassion?"

The light blinded him at that moment and he had no choice but to cover his eyes.

"Okay, okay, okay. Yes, fate played with you. Who cares? Just get over it," said a female voice, coming from all directions. "You're not letting me rest." The being complained childishly.

"What are you?" The omega gathered the courage to ask. He tried to open his eyes, but the light was too blinding. He had no choice but to keep his eyes closed.

"Does it matter? Oh, well, I'll tell you. I'm bored and I haven't spoken to anything in millennia. I am the deity in charge of stories. It is my job to set the golden children on the right path.”

Noah assimilated the words very quickly, after all, he had been in this room without the need to sleep, eat or go to the bathroom. An experience like that could not be human. So coming face to face with a deity didn't seem so far-fetched.

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