Gray (The Boundarylands #10) - Callie Rhodes Page 0,11

to, but you still trespassed on my property, and you must be punished."

"No," Olivia protested, feeling desperation rise in her again. She'd made many mistakes, but trespassing was definitely not one of them. Even she knew better than to cross onto an alpha's cherished land. "It isn't trespassing if you carried me over your property line yourself."

"What the hell are you talking about? By your own admission, you've been camped out on my land for three days now."

"No, I wasn't." Olivia shook her head. "They were very clear that I was set up just outside your…"

Oh shit.

Olivia's chest tightened with fear as she realized she couldn't trust anything her handlers said. These were the same people who'd created a fake badge that said she'd worked for the government, after all—the people who had threatened her family's lives. There was no reason to believe that anyone who had so little regard for her would be honest about anything.

"I didn't know," she pleaded.

Something passed over his face, a fleeting emotion in his arresting violet gaze, but then the hardness returned. "It doesn't matter. There's only one law up here, and you broke it."

Oh, for God's sake. Something inside Olivia snapped. "Well, it's a stupid law."

Almost as stupid as saying that out loud.

The alpha's stony glare turned to ice. He closed the distance between them, menace radiating out from every inch of him. Olivia couldn't help but wonder if he'd reconsidered his decision not to kill her.

"An alpha's property is sacred," he growled. "You may not understand that now, but I promise you that by the time this is over, you will."

"No. Leave me alone." Her fear expanded throughout her body. She held her arms up in a defensive posture over her neck and face.

"Stop being so fucking dramatic," the alpha growled before wrapping both hands around her wrists and forcing them back down to her sides.

"I'm not...not..."

The words came out with great difficulty, as her thoughts began to blur, her vision darkening at the edges. At the same time, her terror faded, replaced with a blurry warmth that spread through her veins. Something strange was happening. Something…not entirely unpleasant.

Strike that.

Whatever was taking over her body, it was downright pleasurable. It made no sense, but if Olivia couldn't feel the smooth stone beneath her feet or her nipples tightening as the crisp wind blew against her damp tank top, she would have sworn that she still floating in the hot spring. Every cell of her body felt warm and lush and absolutely perfect.

The alpha abruptly released her, but for some reason, Olivia didn't want him to. Without thinking, she started to trace her fingertips over his sun-burnished forearms, tickling the fine dark hairs. But it wasn't enough.

She needed to feel more. So much more. Every part of his body. Every inch. She wanted to touch with her fingers and taste with her mouth. She wanted…she wanted…

All of him.

Before she knew what she was doing, she had moved closer until her damp body was pressed against his. Her skin drank in the reassuring heat radiating off his body.

From a great distance, the thoughts she'd discarded spun and swirled. For the life of her, Olivia couldn't remember why she had been fighting so hard. She didn't want to leave. Why would she? She was exactly where she needed to be.

A low, loud growl broke through her musing, and she vaguely realized that it was the alpha. She let her gaze drift dreamily up and was surprised to find him scowling at her. What could he possibly be upset about when everything was so obviously perfect?

"Fuck," he spat. "Of course those beta bastards would send a damn omega."

Chapter Five

Something was wrong.

The thought entered Gray's head just as an unstoppable force of need roared into his veins. Even though the pure sexual desire pulsing inside him with every beat of his heart was impossible to ignore, it hadn't managed to swallow all conscious thought.

Not yet, at any rate.

For now, he could still take in all the details of the woman standing in front of him, down to the jagged scar near the edge of her jaw, almost obscured by her tangle of long brown hair.

One thing was clear. There was nothing wrong with her. Even now, the pure power of her omega nature awakening was causing all the blood to rush to his cock. His legs buckled as the full force of her new, shifting scent reached his nose, and Gray had to grab an overhead branch