Green skin stared at her "Your mate?"
Ridges shook her head."Female, you don't know what you're speaking about."
"Um, I think I know my mate," Gianna said.
Both women started laughing.
Gianna felt her temper start to rise.
"That it, though.You don't.Rhimodians don't mate.They just engage in sex," Green said.
"That's where you're wrong," Gianna said, tapping her chest."I'm his mate."
"For today," Ridges said.
"Once he's relieved his Craving with you, then he's done with you.That's how the Rhimodians work."Green stepped closer to her."You must be new to the sector.I'm not trying to be mean.You just need to understand, Rhimodians don't mate, because they can't mate."
"Everyone knows that a Rhimodian is there for his release, and that's it."
"And you seem to know this because?"Gianna asked.
"Because I've had a lot of Rhimodians.I work up a few more levels, in the pleasure wing."
She blinked."Pleasure wing?"
Green skin sighed."You know.Where customers pay for their sex."
Gianna blinked.She hadn't thought about that line of work.She shouldn't be surprised that it was here, but she was.
Ridges chimed in."I'm pretty sure I've seen your so-called mate there before, too."
A jealous anger started to build in Gianna, but she tried to clamp it down with rational.For one, what he did before she met him was not her business.She could not get mad at him for knowing other women before he knew her.
That screamed of jealousy, and Gianna wasn't about to be that girl.
Besides, how could she be sure these two women even knew what they were talking about.They didn't know this situation; they didn't know what was going on between her and Marcin.
"Do you have a point?"Gianna asked.
"Only that if you're thinking you're falling for that Rhimodian, you'd better think again.They're tall and sexy.They have great packages, but they are not future material," Green said."They're just not built that way.Those cyborg parts don't let them think like normal males."
Gianna snorted, because so far, Marcin didn't think like normal males she knew, but truly, that was a good thing."So far, he seems able to think for himself."
Ridges sighed."He's not going to mate with you.Not on a permanent basis.Just remember that when he leaves you in a few days because his Craving is met."
Step back, and be a bigger person, she told herself.
"Thank you for the warning, I do appreciate it, but I really must be going," Gianna said.
"Don't forget, when he turns you out, that you were warned," Green said.
"Thanks for the tip."
Could they be right?Did they really know what Rhimodians were capable of?
The restof the walk went by in a blur.
She didn't really say much, more of her asking open questions for him to talk about different, just general knowledge things.To learn about how everything worked.
