Broken (Book 1, The Watcher Chronicles, Paranormal Romance) by S.J. West Read Free Book Online Page B

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    “So you’re telling me you’re an angel?  Like from Heaven?”
    “Yes.”
    If anyone else had made such a ridiculous statement, I would have told them to get the hell out of my house.  But, as I look at Mason, I know what he’s telling me is the truth, or at least the truth as he knows it.  If I allow myself to believe in angels and demons, I have to allow for the possibility of there being a God, something I’m not willing to believe in as fact just yet.
    “So why are you here?” I ask.  “Why are you on Earth and not Heaven?”
    “ A long time ago, we were sent here by God to teach the human race,” Mason explains.  “We were supposed to act as your guides and observe your behaviors.”
    “Supposed to?  You make it sound like you failed.”
    Mason look s back into the fire, either unwilling or unable to meet my eyes.  “We did the one thing God forbade us from doing while we were here.  We married human women and attempted to have children with them.  We did it because we all yearned to have what human men had, a family of our own.”
    “And I take it your God didn’t like you doing what He told you not to?”
    “No, He most definitely did not.  We were exiled from Heaven because of our sin and forced to live here.”
    “Was that so bad?” I ask , not quite seeing that as a punishment.  “I mean you wanted to have families here, right?  If you didn’t have to go back to Heaven then you could just stay here and be with them.”
    “Because of what we did,” Mason says, his voice sounding haunted by his memories, “our families were made to pay the price.  When our wives became pregnant, the children within them consumed their bodies while they grew in their wombs, killing the mothers.  And after the children were born they were cursed to live a half life.”
    “How?”
    “I assume you’ve heard the legend about werewolves.”
    “They’re real?” I ask, not hiding that I’m having a hard time believing everything Mason is saying.  But, I know it’s the truth.  I’ m usually good at telling when people are lying to me, Owen being the exception to that rule.  Even though everything Mason has said so far sounds outrageous, I know he’s telling me what he believes to be true.
    “When the moon rises, the children of the Watchers would turn into werewolves.  It wasn’t meant as a punishment for them exactly but for us, their fathers:  a daily reminder that we failed them.  That we shouldn’t have gone against God’s law.”
    “So you lost your wi ves and your children were cursed to be werewolves.  I’m afraid to ask but did your God do anything else to punish you?”
    “We were also cursed with a n insatiable hunger for human blood and designed to produce a pheromone which made it virtually impossible for us to be near human females without them becoming instantly attracted to us.”
    “So , are you telling me you’re a vampire?” I ask, feeling like I should go grab some garlic from the kitchen.
    “It’s where the legend c omes from.  Some of us were able to control the urge and some of us weren’t.”
    “Which side of that fence did you fall on?”
    Mason grins grimly.  “I was able to control it, but it wasn’t easy.  I spent a lot of time alone with my son in the beginning.  Then as time went by, it became easier to be around humans again , to live something which resembled a normal life.”
    “And your child?”
    A genuine smile graces Mason’s face.  “He was freed of the curse when the Tear was made.  He and Angela are married now and they have a family of their own.  They were granted human lives since neither Allan nor I let our children drink human blood during the time they shifted into their werewolf forms.”
    “How did the Tear break their curse?”
    “ The Tear didn’t do it.  God did.  The Tear is a result of Lucifer trying to destroy the universe.”
    “So, you’re not just telling me God is real but that the devil is