Greyson - Part 1: An Alpha Billionaire Shifter Romance (The Silver Moon Pack) Read Free Page A

focus on the information he wanted, though why she was telling him any of this was beyond her.
    She’d known him all of half an hour, and he was some sort of weird paranormal creature that shouldn’t even exist. For all she knew, he could have a pile of dead bodies in the basement. And yet…he seemed like her only option for now, and just because he wanted answers didn’t mean she had to tell him everything.
    “I moved up to the cabin because my life sucked and I was desperate for a change.” Among other things, like killing yet another man who’d attacked her. “I’d inherited the place from my great-uncle and since I figured it was better than paying the crazy rent I was dishing out in Cambridge, I figured I might as well give it a try.”
    “And how long has it been since you moved up here? I’m assuming it hasn’t been all that long, or you’d have gotten eaten by now.” He crossed his arms in front of his chest, which only served to make his massive biceps look even bigger—and that sure as hell didn’t help her concentration.
    “Ha ha. Real funny. Three weeks ago—and up until an hour ago, nothing even bothered to take a nibble.” She’d been here just long enough for it to start to feel like she knew the area—which is exactly how she managed to get lost with night falling. “I’d been doing just fine up until today. But…I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way, and was trying to get back home, when that bear came out of nowhere and attacked me.”
    “And what happened next?” Greyson was looking serious now, his brow furrowed as he ran a rough hand across his stubbled chin.
    “I tried to get away—but I swear, it was like he was toying with me. He’d let me run, and then he’d pounce on me, knocking me over and pinning me to the ground with his weight.” And that was when it happened, just like the other two times before. She let out a ragged breath as tears stung her eyes. “He was on top of me, crushing me, and I swear, I couldn’t breathe. And then…he just dropped dead.”
    “Hey…it’s okay, Juno.” Greyson pushed off the counter and closed the distance between them, cupping her cheek and brushing away at the tear that escaped and slipped down her cheek. “You have every right to be shaken up after that sort of attack. I’m just relieved that that fucking bastard didn’t have a chance to really hurt you. Although…it’s odd that he just died, Juno. That sort of thing doesn’t happen.”
    “I don’t know anything about bears or shifters, but as far as I can tell, that’s what happened. He was attacking me one minute, and the next he was dead.” It’s not as though she had any real answers for him.
    How the hell was she supposed to tell him that the reason she’d moved out into the middle of nowhere was because she was dangerous and couldn’t trust herself to be around other people? Even before tonight, two other people had died because of her, and though they’d attacked her and the world was a better place without them, it didn’t mean their deaths weren’t her fault.
    Sure, the cops had told her they’d died of heart failure—but she knew better. She’d seen the horror in their eyes as she protected herself, and though they shouldn’t have tried to hurt her and it served them right, it didn’t change the fact that somehow, as insane as it sounded, she’d killed those men. Two separate occasions—two men had decided to attack, and two men were dead of heart attacks.
    It was like she was some sort of magnet for deranged men bent on doing her harm. Their deaths might be a coincidence, since the reality sounded like some sort of weird science fiction thing—and yet another man had just attacked her, and another man had ended up dead. Not that she could tell Greyson the truth.
    “I’m sure he just had a heart attack.” It was what they’d find if they did an autopsy. Of that she was sure—and just maybe that’d be enough to keep her