15. It Was a Good Start

Phil almost answered her but from the way she was looking at him and the sly smile she had about her face, it clearly told him that this must have been a trap. He thus swallowed the words he was about to say and looked at her in thought.

Firstly, he didn't know who she was. Secondly, he felt like he was being set up. So, he looked at her and smiled. That smile that he knew made many ladies fall at his feet. Too bad that he wasn't into that and he wasn't sure that this woman would fall for it but there was no harm in trying, right? Right?

"And who are you, if you don't mind my asking?" He asked, politely, trying to buy time so that he could come up with an appropriate answer.

He already knew she wasn't human seeing where they were and the fact that she knew he was both Ravi and Philip.

"My name is Aali, I am the keeper of this garden. You can call it my hobby," she said as she smiled and then bent to touch a flower.

Hari expected her to continue and maybe tell her more about hersel