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Flynn sat in front of Murray, looking the man straight in the eye. He could see the concern of a father shining in his eyes, and he could not blame him. If it were his own daughter and son’s lives on the line, he might have acted similarly. Although right now, he was being rushed by the rage of a young lover, and he would never let Astrid suffer.
Flynn had enough faith in himself to know that he could and would save her.
“Murray, I ken what ye feel, but the only way to go about this is trust. Ye will need to trust me before I leave,” he said, looking Laird O’Donnely straight in the eye.
“I do trust ye, Flynn,” Murray replied, and Flynn immediately felt lighter. “And I wish to apologize to ye.”
“What for?” Flynn asked, his brows furrowed in confusion.
“For all these years of hatred against ye, yer faither, and yer clan, when it was clearly not ye who had Aiden kidnapped. I should have known better and should have trusted yer faither’s word before starting the wars.”
Flynn accepted Murray’s apology easily, since he was a staunch believer that the past should remain in the past. “Ye dinnae need to apologize to me, Murray. Yer trust in me now is compensation enough for all that happened these many years ago.”
“I still needed to apologize for my own peace of mind,” Murray said. “I am an old man now and cannae continue living unapologetically with my mistakes. Things would have been far different between our clans and our lives if I had only trusted yer word at that time. Perhaps we could have worked together to find Aiden earlier—”
“If ye keep torturing yerself with the what ifs and imagining everything that could have happened in the past, ye will never be able to live with yerself and yer choices, Murray. Dinnae do this to yerself,” Flynn interjected, placing a hand on Murray’s shoulder as if to soothe him.
“Flynn, we must hurry.” Billy’s voice reminded Flynn that they were indeed short on time and needed to decide what needed to be done as soon as possible.
“Now that I have yer faith in me, Murray, I will be leaving. Send yer soldiers to the lands around the castle, and I will do the same. Astrid and Aiden will come home, I promise.”
Murray nodded.
Flynn immediately turned around and left the O’Donnely castle with Billy. He did not know how Astrid was doing, and the fact that she had been kidnapped while she had been at the MacKie castle was even more insulting for him. He had failed to protect her earlier, but he will not fail to save her now.
If there was something Flynn despised most in the world, it was coward men like Myles who fought from behind your back. Men who were weak enough to never be out in the open but always ready to attack from behind.
Myles had done exactly that by kidnapping Aiden first and then Astrid. Flynn knew he would make sure Laird Gallagher suffered, and if there was one thing he did well, it was following through on his promises.
CHAPTER22
“Flynn, it is confirmed.”
Billy walked towards Flynn as the two of them stood just at the back of the Gallagher castle waiting to get in. Billy had asked some of his people to find out about Astrid and Aiden’s location inside the castle, and one of his informers had just arrived with news.
“What is confirmed?”
“They are not in the main dungeons where Myles keeps everyone else. They are somewhere else,” Billy said.
Flynn nodded. He had already expected this to be the case. Myles was a smart man and would have never kept Aiden in a place where he could be seen by others and make friends who might help him out of the dungeons.
“Where are the other dungeons in the castle?” Flynn asked.
“Right in the basement of the main castle. They have been empty for years now and remain unused. It could be the only place he would have kept them in,” Billy replied.
Flynn knew this made their task of sneaking into the dungeons slightly more difficult, but he was prepared for anything.
He was not going to leave the Gallagher castle without Astrid and Aiden by his side, and he had vowed the same thing to Murray as well. Hence, he already knew he would go to any lengths to make sure he found them, and they walked out of there safely.
“Well, now, we must sneak into the castle,” Flynn commented, already knowing the easiest way to do so would be by entering through the underground tunnels.
The Gallagher castle had been built rather differently and was quite adapted to war. Hence, several open spaces had been left to allow the residents of the castle to escape if necessary, which made them equally accessible for entering. His grandfather had taught him everything about this long before he had passed away.
Flynn knew Myles had sealed all such spaces, but the underground tunnels were the easiest to break through, since they were only filled with mud and opened directly into the basement, which would lead them directly to the dungeons.
Billy nodded at him as they wordlessly walked towards the tunnels, unseen by anyone around them. The castle was not well manned, since Myles had a small army and most of his soldiers were stationed at the borders to protect the villages that he had captured from the O’Donnely and MacKie clans.
This was beneficial for both Billy and Flynn, as they quickly used the sticks they were carrying to navigate through the tunnels and dig through the mud as quickly as they could. Flynn knew they did not have enough time and rushed. Billy, following suit, did the same. The tunnels were not extremely long, and before they even knew it, they had already entered the basement, which was as empty and damp, as Flynn had expected it to be.
