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Between love and the end

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In a world ravaged by the zombie apocalypse, Alex, a strong and charismatic alpha, tries to lead his group of survivors. However, behind the facade of a leader, he hides a secret: he is in love with his secretary, Leo, an intelligent and sensitive beta. However, his personal life is in ruins. Leo, his beta boyfriend and secretary, has just discovered that Alex's family is planning an engagement with an omega. Tired of living in the shadow of expectations, Leo ends the relationship. With the abrupt end of the romance, the apocalypse arrives with fury, bringing not only zombies but betrayals and conflicts among survivors. Leo, in his search to understand his new role in this cruel world, discovers that he possesses a supernatural power: the ability to absorb the life energy of others, becoming stronger with each life he drains. However, this ability comes at a terrible price—he must face the loss of his humanity. As the two protagonists grow apart, Alex struggles with the pain of loss, while Leo is surrounded by challenges that force him to use his powers more and more. The world has become a place where survival of the fittest, and Leo finds himself torn between his new identity and the love he still feels for Alex. When their paths cross again, Alex realizes that to protect Leo and earn his trust, he will need to face not only the hordes of zombies but also the ghosts of his past. He must decide: can he accept the new Leo, even if it means confronting his weaknesses and the shadow of what he has become? The two support each other in a world in ruins, but the pressure from Alex's family to marry an elite omega makes everything more complicated. As zombies and survivors fight for power, Alex and Leo must work together, rebuilding what was broken and facing the dark truth about the sacrifices that love demands. Leo, who has always admired Alex from afar, feels the weight of expectation on his shoulders. He is the last person who would want to disrupt his beloved's life, so he decides to keep his feelings quiet. However, the chaos of the apocalypse brings unexpected challenges and, on one fateful night, Leo discovers that Alex's family is organizing a meeting between him and the omega, planning an engagement. Desperate and hurt, Leo confronts Alex, revealing his emotions. What should have been a conversation about survival turns into a deep outburst, where the two realize the love they have built amidst the destruction. They must decide whether to face the expectations of society and Alex's family or to give up their love to protect an uncertain future. Unfortunately, reality doesn't always have a happy ending. When an enemy uses an omega to try to infiltrate the group of survivors, Alex soon realizes this and pretends to fall for the beauty trick and takes the omega to the forest to get rid of him. After all, it wasn't the first time they used this trick and it always worked. But Alex made a mistake. He didn't know that the omega had a magical jade space around his neck where another survivor was hiding, waiting for the opportunity to kill him. The last thing Alex saw before he died was the omega transforming into his appearance and handing the necklace to someone else, apparently another omega. He wasn't sure because his vision was getting dark, but all he could think about was Leo. Waking up weak, sick, and the victim of a trap 2 years before the apocalypse Alex has to fix his relationship with Leo. With the zombie apocalypse lurking and the pressure from his family increasing, Alex and Leo must fight not only against the future threat of the undead but also against the ghosts of their insecurities.
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Chapter 1 - The beginning after the end

At night, in a now completely silent forest, a beautiful girl with long black hair, fluttering due to the night breeze, apparently frightened after seeing the fat man lying on the ground, her cat-like eyes changed from astonishment to calm until she sighed and said in a male voice.

"Sister Angel, for a moment, I thought the plan had gone wrong. I was afraid the silencer wouldn't work. It was all thanks to your secret weapon."

To the astonishment of Alex, lying on the ground, the face of the now smiling woman transformed until it took on the appearance of an unknown man. Alex knew from the beginning that it was a trap, so he pretended that he had fallen into the seduction game, but he had searched the area beforehand and was sure that no one was there, so he thought he could make this spy confess and then get rid of her, but out of nowhere another person materialized behind him, even people with space powers couldn't do that. Space powers were rare, and being able to evolve them was even rarer. All people with space powers could only store supplies in space and nothing more, so they had to be protected by others because they were the people with superpowers who were weaker and easier to kill. Without strength, Alex fell to the ground and suddenly remembered the rumor. In one of the main bases, there was a woman who, after being rescued, tried to take a jade Buddha from the dead bandit, and consequently, the same jade Buddha was broken by a shot from the person who rescued him. This piece of jade Buddha, however, contained a space of 10m² that allowed this girl to hide temporarily if necessary. However, this space did not have the power to keep food fresh and prevent it from spoiling over time. Rumors had it that this same girl, whom the high-ranking people of the base courted, was looking for another whole jade pendant with the same powers. If only one fragment had such power, she could not even imagine the power that an entire pendant without any defects would have, offering food rewards for it. However, could a jade pendant be that easy to find? And the reward she offered was well below the real value if another pendant like that existed. This reward, however, was able to arouse the interest of many ordinary people who were in need. Another pendant, however, was not found. Alex, as he began to lose consciousness with a shot to the heart, obviously from behind, faintly smelled an omega, but the man in front of him was an Alpha, so the only possibility was that the person who had shot him was an omega. In the moment before his death, Alex thought about Leo and that he had failed to protect him, even though he didn't consider himself in need of his protection. Using his last strength to try to pronounce Leo's name, he thought that if he got another chance, he would do everything to protect him. His mouth, however, only moved slightly without being able to make a sound before he closed his eyes forever. The unknown person unlocked the gun and pointed it at Alex's head. 

"The first was in the heart, the next will be in the head. After all, we don't want him to become a zombie."

Alex, however, was already dead due to blood loss.