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What a douchebag.

God sighed and leaned back on the cushions. “What to do, what to do?”

Ari shook his head and walked back to Sage. “Well, listen. Nice talk. Can you, ah, go back to heaven or whatever and mull over your new plans?” Ari said, placing a hand on Sage’s hip. “I have to get on with dying. Finally.”

God smirked.

Fucking smirked.

“You want to die?” he then asked.

Who asked that? Right before a nuclear blast was about to hit you.

Of course not, but he’d lived longer than anyone else in history, so Ari wasn’t exactly going to throw a tantrum and complain.

The guy/being/whatever would’ve heard his screaming earlier and must know how he felt about him and all of this.

“Oh, I heard it. I’ve heard it all. All of you. Constantly.” God sighed and stood.

Great.

“Answer me this,” Ari said, needing to know before he left this existence. “Why could I not breed?”

God slid his hands into his cream pants and rocked back on his shoes.

Wait, were those Nikes?

“Adidas.” God answered, then whipped out his hand and ran a hand over his face. “The truth is, Ari, you could have. I didn’t make you infertile. Nature is perfectly imperfect. Freewill has given you the choice all along. I suspect the competition between you and Gio became your focus.”

“I wasn’t competitive!”

“You wereconcernedabout the competition. More concerned about what he thought than focusing on creating your bloodline.”

Fuck.

Ari knew immediately that he was right.

“This is how creation works. Focus,” God added. “Energy. It isallenergy. What you focus on, you get more of. Your focus was not being able to create your bloodline, thereforethat’swhat you created.”

Wow.

“Why didn’t you leave us instructions?” he muttered, gripping Sage’s hip, needing her to ground him.

God seemed to snap at that and lifted his arms up like a frustrated parent.

“I gave all of you complete free will and choice, and what do you do? Create this shit show. Now I have to create something newallover again.”

Boo-hoo.

Poor God, he has to do some hard work.

Was this guy for real?

“Well then, don’t!” Ari yelled, glancing briefly at Sage as if she was going to wake up. “Give us another chance. Reverse this. Let me...”

God lifted his brows. “Yes?”

“Let me...”