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“Yes?” Flynn asked her, raising an eyebrow. He hadn’t asked for anything, and he could not see what she wanted from him at this hour.
“Me Laird, yer grandmother,” the maid stammered, and Flynn suddenly grew worried at her anxious tone.
“What happened to Grandma?” he demanded. “Quick, tell me.”
“She disnae feel so well and is asking for ye immediately,” the maid replied, and Flynn felt as if his world had shifted.
The only person he had in his life was his grandmother, and no one else loved him more than she did. He could not tolerate anything happening to her.
“Where is she?” he asked, trying to remain as calm as he possibly could under the stress that was accumulating on his shoulders.
“In the library.”
Flynn immediately turned and ran the short distance towards the library, silently praying for his grandmother to be all right.
When he entered the almost dark room, since only a few candles were lit there, he could see no one. He walked past the front shelves to where the sofas were placed, and there was no one present. He turned around to ask the maid where his grandmother was but noticed that the door had been locked.
Confusion clouded his mind as he became increasingly anxious and tried to open the door but found it locked instead.
“Flynn? What are ye doing here?”
Astrid’s voice surprised him, and he found her inside the library upon turning around. He hadn’t seen her earlier, which meant she must have been at the back.
“A maid told me Grandmother wasnae feeling well and was in here, but now, the maid is gone, and the door is locked,” Flynn explained. Astrid’s eyes widened at the news, and she immediately ran towards the door and tried opening it, but to no avail. “What are ye doing here?”
“Keira asked me to meet her here, and I was just waiting for her,” Astrid replied, and Flynn relaxed as the realization of what had happened dawned on him.
“We have been trapped.”
“What do ye mean?”
“I was lied to in the name of my grandmother and ye were lied to by yer sister. These two must have planned to lock us here together,” Flynn explained, and Astrid scowled as she took in his words.
“This is absurd,” she soffed and began to knock on the door loudly, but Flynn grabbed her wrists before she hurt herself.
“Calm down, will ye,” he whispered, making sure she was all right. “They willnae open the door until they want to. We have nay choice but to spend time here.”
“Ye cannae be serious. Yer going to let them win?”
“I think ye can spend some time with me, Astrid. I promise I won’t kill ye,” he said jokingly, and Astrid smiled.
Just then, she looked down at her hands, which Flynn was still holding, and he immediately dropped them, not wishing for her to feel uncomfortable at all.
“Ye promise?”
“I promise. For it seems like there is nay going out of here, at least for a little while.”
Flynn did not know why the simple news made him feel elated. It seemed like the perfect end to an awful day.
CHAPTER16
Astrid still could not believethat Laila and Keira would resort to such methods in order to bring her closer to Flynn, although she knew if there was anyone who was capable of such a thing, it was those two. They were quite alike in their wildness of nature and impulsiveness, and Astrid could see them talking and plotting.
Despite that, she knew that the benefits of being inside a library were that she would not have to converse with Flynn and could simply sit and read a book.
She turned and noticed him thumbing through the shelves of history and could sense he sported a similar idea.
Without wasting another second, Astrid picked up a novel she had been meaning to read for quite some time now and sat down on the sofa. Shortly after, Flynn sat down at a little distance from her and began reading his book, even though it was evident that he was as distracted as she was.
