Betting on Julia (A Melville Sisters Novel) (Entangled Covet) Read Online Free PDF Page A

idea of being among so many of them terrified the life out of her, though she wouldn’t admit that to Daniel. Not even to Lissa.
    Daniel had stayed with her the first month she had changed. And since then, each month, he assigned one of the pack to keep an eye on her, but that was all she was willing to put up with.
    She put the phone down without waiting for him to say anything else. Anyway, he couldn’t talk—he’d spent the last six years pretty much denying what he was. Ethan had changed Daniel, too. Her brother was a scientist, a geneticist—the best in his field and they had wanted him to work on a cure for the silver poisoning, which was the one thing that could destroy a werewolf. They’d kept him in line by threatening his family and had gone so far as to kill Babs, their oldest sister, to prove the threats weren’t idle. Daniel had kept all that to himself, worked on the cure, but also on a few experiments of his own.
    He’d killed Ethan, who had apparently been eaten by the pack, though luckily, Julia had missed that part of the evening’s entertainment.
    She still found the whole craziness impossible to believe. She hated the sight of blood. How the hell could she be a werewolf?
    She shook her head; she wasn’t supposed to be thinking about this now. That was her plan: deal with it when she had no choice. Pretend it didn’t exist the rest of the time. Since that one moment with Sebastian, Thing had been quiet. Julia could do this.
    Especially now she had her hot neighbor to take her mind off things. She’d pick up a bottle of wine on her way home from work tomorrow night. Go over there and welcome him to the neighborhood. Cry on his shoulder about how her dastardly girlfriend had run off with another woman and put her off women for the foreseeable future. And maybe they could spend a little time together, maybe even have a shag to remind her of what she’d been missing. Get her back in the swing of dating.
    Great. She had a plan.
    …
    Sebastian straightened his dark red tie and tightened his fingers around the laptop case he carried in his right hand. More of his nice-ordinary-guy disguise.
    He avoided peering sideways as he passed Julia’s house, but he knew she was in because her car was parked on the road outside and a light was on in the living room. He planned to pop over there again in a little while, though he really needed to think of a better excuse this time than borrowing fucking milk.
    He let himself into the house next door and dropped the case on the floor in the hallway. He’d spent the day back at his penthouse, working on a job. He had various contacts in the supernatural world, many of them thanks to Dante, and he was often approached to use his particular talents—mainly finding things or people. He was good at it, and his time did not come cheap. The magic had exhausted him, but a cold shower had brought him around, and now he was ready to try again with Julia.
    Just friends. That was the way he should approach it. Go around there and apologize for yesterday. Maybe he could be recovering from a relationship and trying to mend his broken heart. He wasn’t ready for dating, just wanted to be friends, and he was worried he’d come on too strong. Could he say she wasn’t his type? Would that work in his favor or against him?
    He was really out of practice.
    At least Dante had been quiet for the last twenty-four hours and a quick peek inside showed he wasn’t awake.
    He could go weeks without the demon showing his face, though those times were getting shorter. Another sign the demon was gaining strength. Sebastian had done some research into possession and the possessed was almost invariably devoured by the demon in the end, their mind breaking and the demon moving on to someone new. Sebastian couldn’t allow that to happen.
    He checked his appearance in the mirror. His shoulder-length hair had been cut shorter prior to his first meet with Julia, though it was still long enough