She scanned the tablet again, and looked over something, her fingers slipping up and down over the panel, her brow narrowed.
Tina scooted closer to Gianna and the two joined hands.Tina's hand trembled.It felt like the room had taken a breath, and they were waiting to know if they could exhale.
"Is there a problem, Re-lee?"Gianna asked.She had to say something, the room was getting heavy with concern.Even the doctor looked a little worried.
"Not exactly," she said."More of an unexpected twist."
Tina raised her eyebrow."Unexpected, how?"
"There must be a mistake in the data.I will have to search for the faulty codes."She glanced back at them."Do not worry, your mates are here, and they are 100%yourmatches, and they are looking forward to meeting you."
"What did you tell them?"Gianna asked.
Tina shook her head."Wait.What if I don't want to do this?What is the out?"Tina asked.
"The out?"Re-lee asked.
"What is my way back home if I don't want to do this?"
"You have 30 days.If you choose to reject your selected mate, then you will be returned to your place of existence with the option of remembering, or not remembering, your experience here with the IDA.You must meet your mate and give it thirty days before you can reject the match."
A return clause.Gianna thought about that for a moment.Did she want to go back home?Would she ever?
She didn't know.
There wasn't much on Earth that she would want to go home for.Maybe her laptop with all her books on it.Or if not her laptop, at least a thumb drive or something to store it all and bring it back here.Because she couldn't think of a reason she'd want to stay, if not just to make sure that her stuff was handled back on Earth.
But did it matter?
Really?
She'd wind up being some kind of mystery.
There was something kind of appealing to that.Maybe they'd think she'd become a real-life alien abduction, since that's what she wrote.That could be a heck of a legacy.
She glanced at Tina, who was arguing the minutia of the return policy with Re-lee.She'd want to go home, and she'd probably not want to come back.
Gianna, though?
If these guys were even slightly good looking, then she'd be a fool to run away from them.This was in a way her absolute dream.
Tina was still going off, worrying.She was really good at that.
Facing all logic, they both probably died in that cave, and this is the afterlife.They might as well enjoy it as it comes and quit questioning it.
She was about to say that very thing, when footsteps made her turn toward the doorway.
In walked two seven-foot-tall men.Thick and proportionate to their huge size.
Gianna saw how their arms were held out a little bit from their bodies.She'd call that the arrogant walk she'd seen males strut like that before.
However, these guys?
They weren't strutting.They just were that big.
With white eyes.No irises to speak of, just white eyes.
She might have feared them, maybe.If she met them on Earth.Probably.She sure wouldn't want either of them to come up on her in an alley or a bar.They would be very hard to fight off.And those eyes would be super creepy on her homeworld.
