“Ola?” The red-headed guard stood on the other side of my door holding a package. I glanced down half expecting Hayes to be there but he wasn’t. “Come in.”
I stepped back to let him into the study.
“Sorry were you studying?” He asked looking towards the desk where I had a pile of books open.
“Oh yeah,” I shifted nervously as he moved to sit on the sofa. “The Gala’s in a couple of days so I just want to make sure I’m as prepared as possible.”
He hummed in response placing the parcel on the table in front of him, I took a seat on the sofa across from him. “My one piece of advice is to avoid my grandmother.”
Øydis Keane hadn’t made herself known in the past month since I received the invitation. But that feeling of being watched never really disappeared. At first, I c
