Hell Is Coming (The Watcher's Series Book 1) (34 page)

Not that I’d try, mind you. Once was enough for the time being. Eva was keen to examine me, to see what was going on in my body at a molecular level. I didn’t feel any different aside from the fact that I never felt better. The demonic power was still in me somewhere, but  it was buried deep. It was mixed up with the Light Energy, combined to make something new. I wasn’t even sure if I could control the new power in me.  I was more concerned about being normal for a while (or as normal as it was possible for someone like me to be), indulging my passion for drawing, smoking the occasional joint, trying to forget about the hellish ordeal I had been through. There was time enough to see what potential lay inside me.

Sleep wasn’t good either. Since the showdown at the cemetery, I had been plagued by nightmares, most of them featuring Abigor in his full demonic form. I knew the evil bastard was dead, that he could never try to hurt me again, but that didn’t make the nightmares any easier.  I hoped they would fade eventually.

Josh was doing okay, considering. He said he remembered everything from his time as a demon, though he wished he didn’t. He had apparently seen and done some terrible things, things he would have to live with the rest of his life. He had also visited our Mom in Hell, just to torment her. That was messing with his head more than anything else. He stayed with Frank and me at the cabin for a day, but after that he took his car and headed back into the city to claim the apartment we had looked at what seemed like ages ago now. He said he would move in, try to resume his life as normal, maybe go to college. He had no interest in living his life as a Watcher. He’d had enough of that stuff and I couldn’t blame him.

Me, I couldn’t just walk away from it all like Josh did. I was in too deep. I’d sold my soul for a start. It would only be a matter of time before the crossroads demon came to cash in his favor and take my soul after that. Then I would end up in Hell along with my mom. I intended to save her. If I was going to Hell I’d find a way to get her and me both out of the place. How exactly, I didn’t know.

In the meantime I would stay with Frank at the cabin. I had grown to like living up in the mountains. The air was clean and there were no people around to spoil everything.

I still hadn’t fully forgiven Frank for his affair with my Mom, but I also realized it takes two to tango. My Mom wasn’t blameless in all that, far from it. But she was my Mom. Frank was my uncle. People made mistakes. Things never worked as planned— I knew that. Family is family though, and Frank was family. More than that, he was my Watcher mentor. That new part of my life I had accepted now, if not totally embraced.

Evil was out there and someone had to fight it.

Might as well be me.

About The Author

N.P. Martin is the author of a number of bestselling non-fiction books. He loves everything to do with urban fantasy, demons, the occult and kick ass characters. Writing is his love and passion and he blogs about it at
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