Gray: The Boundarylands Omegaverse: MF Alpha Omega Romance by Callie Rhodes

Author:Callie Rhodes [Rhodes, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

"This should be looking a lot better by morning," Gray said as he knotted the thread. It had taken seven tiny stitches in all to close the wound, but the omega's body would heal much more quickly than it would have when she was a beta.

Olivia didn't appear to have heard him. Her unblinking gaze was still focused straight ahead.

Maybe she was tougher than she looked.

Then again, maybe not. Gray couldn't shake the feeling that, in this instance, her muted reaction was due to more to shock than stony courage.

Look down at her, Gray had to admit she was still amazingly beautiful for a woman who had been through so much. Like a cupcake left out in the sun, he thought in a rare poetic moment. Her rosy lips and pale skin had relaxed like softened frosting. Her hair was mussed, cascading around her face.

"It just isn't possible," she muttered, more to herself than him. "There's no way to test for a person's true nature."

"Obviously, your beta suit has found one."

"Or maybe they just got lucky," she tried hopefully.

Gray snorted. "Government agencies don't run on luck. They threw a lot of resources at this technology—and on all this surveillance."

Olivia pulled her knees to her chin and watched him thoughtfully. "But doesn't that just prove what we already knew? The suit picked me because I'm a wildlife photographer. This guy made it clear he considers you to be, well, barely above an animal. And he wanted to protect their investment, so they made sure they could keep track of me while I was keeping track of you."

It was a simple, reasonable argument. But unfortunately, nothing about this episode was turning out to be simple.

"For what purpose?" Gray countered. "What could the beta authorities possibly be working on that requires seven days' worth of photos of an alpha going in and out of his front door? If they were trying to gather evidence against a known criminal, it might make sense—but I guarantee that nothing I've ever done merits this level of surveillance."

Olivia sighed, defeat settling heavily on her shoulders. Gray almost regretted telling her the brutal truth—but she needed to know, for her own safety.

"You were up there for what, two days? Tell me, did you catch me doing anything interesting in all that time?"

"Just when you ripped apart my tent, forced me to take off all my clothes, and…"

Her voice trailed off, which was definitely for the best. It wasn't as if Gray needed any reminders of what had happened next. It was hard enough having to deal with her irresistible scent filling up the room even as she sat there in a dazed stupor.

"Exactly," he said. "The only noteworthy things that have happened here have centered around you, not me. If it weren't for that damned beeping, I might have never known you were there."

A faint wrinkle creased her brow. "What beeping?"

Of course. She hadn't been able to hear it. "It came from the briefcase, the one they told you held the satellite uplink.

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