Rakshasa Boyfriend: Himank (special preview)

“What’s this strange thing?” Himank asks. I’ve been given a room in the palace and Himank comes by everyday to have breakfast with me. He’s seen my cell phone sitting on the table and he’s looking it over.

“Careful with that!” I snatch it back and hold is preciously in my hands. It doesn’t work anymore, the battery died a few days ago. But I still cling to it like some sort of lifeline to my old world.

“I guess it doesn’t matter anymore,” I murmur as I look over the black empty screen. “But it’s something almost everyone has in my world. We can use them to call one another, talk, message, anything really.” I hand it over to Himank again.

“How?” Himank looks it over, turning it this way and that. “It just looks like a block of glass!”

“I’m sure the way I’d describe it would just make it all sound like some sort of magic.” I sigh. “Felt like it sometimes.”

Himank sets the phone down. “You can’t use it here?”

I shake my head. “The power for it is empty and I’ve got no way to recharge it.” I shrug. “Besides, who would I talk to?”

Himank reaches out. “You can always talk to me.”

I chuckle and take his stretched out hand. “What are you, some sort of flirt?”

“Usually,” he squeezes my hand and kisses my knuckles. 

My heart skips a beat again. “Damini told me you were something of a lothario.” I keep my hand in his. 

“I like to have company,” Himank says. “And just because I date doesn’t make me some sort of philanderer.” He rolls his eyes. “Nothing has just been a good fit for me.” He then scowls. “So don’t let my sister go filling your head with that sort of nonsense. I am a gentleman first and foremost. Or well, doctor before all that.”

I giggle and nod. “Ok. I trust you.”

There’s a knock on the door and Himank answers. I hear him whisper to who is outside and he turns to me. “Soo-jin, they just arrived.”

I stand up as the door opens, a woman walks in and my heart nearly falls out. She looks older than I last remember, but it’s her. Her eyes fill with tears and her jaw drops.

“Allie?” I step towards her.