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“My mom was a Nephilim. And…so am I.”
I stared blankly at Seth, my brows furrowed, unsure of what he meant.
“What is a Nephilim?” My thoughts churned.
What did this mean? Is this some joke?
“Nephilim are the result of Angel and human breeding,” I was dumbfounded. Seth had to be pulling my leg. “I’m a second generation Nephilim. My mom was an Angel who fell in love with my very human father. And had me. I didn’t know untilyears after she died. My uncle… he explained it to me when I turned eighteen.”
A knot formed in my stomach.
This cannot be real.
“Okay, if she was this ‘Nephilim’ then what was she protecting people from?” I narrowed my eyes. I had my legs curled up and knees tucked under my chin. I wrapped my arms around my thighs and dug my fingernails into my skin in an attempt to give myself some semblance of control.
“Demons. They find their way through the gates of Hell and torment innocent humans on Earth. They cut loose and cause chaos by bringing back the dead, the damned, and all the things that go bump in the night. And Nephilim were created to protect and defend against them.” Seth searched my eyes, trying to gauge my reaction, my understanding.
Tendrils of fear licked my insides, my pulse quickened.
“So, what does that have to do with me?” I did not like where our conversation was headed. “Wait, you said you were Nephilim. How come you didn’t tell me? Why now?” My voice rose, the reddened flare of irritation began to bloom.
What the hell is going on?
Seth ran his fingers through his onyx hair as he cleared his throat. “I know. I know, it’s a lot. But you have to trust me and understand that we were trying to protect you as long as possible. I discovered I was Nephilim a few years back. When my uncle took me in, I had no idea. I never even believed in any of that stuff. The whole Angel and Demon situation, I thought it was a whole lot of horse shit. But around the time I turned eighteen, things started happening to me. I’d get irritated, break things that I shouldn’t have been able to. I started hearing conversations between two people at the opposite end of the hallway at school, the length of eight classrooms between us. At one point, I remember slamming my fist into one of the lockersand the whole wall came crashing down. As you can imagine, that didn’t go too well. Then, my uncle sat me down and explained what was going on.” To prove his point, Seth walked to his rec area and picked up one of the cardio machines like it was nothing and tossed it back down with a heavy thud, a dent forever embedded in his otherwise perfect floor.
Holy. Shit.
My jaw dropped, my heartbeat hammered in my chest.
There’s no fucking way.
I tried to reason with myself and make sense of why Seth had been able to lift a piece of workout equipment that easily weighed several hundred pounds, if not more. My mind reeled, unable to come up with a reasonable explanation. I was lost for words.
“See? We workout and lift together, but I shouldn’t be able to lift that thing like it’s a bag of flour. And I shouldn’t be able to hear my neighbor down the street practicing a lecture for her class on Monday. Or your heartbeat when my ear isn’t against your chest and I’m on the far side of the couch.” Okay, that spiked my already pounding heart. He flashed a teasing grin. My face flushed.
Dammit.
I squared my shoulders. “You’re super strong and have stupidly good hearing, cool, I get it. But you’re still dodging what my involvement in all of this is. I’m just a weak human,” he raised his eyebrows, guilt tinged his cheeks and the tip of his nose. “Iamhuman, right?”
For the love of all things sane. Seth Draven your ass better say yes.
His lips formed a thin line as he stared at me.
Nope. This is a dream. This has to be a freaking dream.
Demons? Angels? There’s no freaking way.
I started hyperventilating and felt the blood drain from my face.
“No.”
I gulped, sand in my throat as my vision blurred.
No.
“Erin, you’re Nephilim as well. Your mother was human but your dad…he was an Angel.”
My dad was an Angel?
