Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 84 : Glowing

*Jared*

We boarded the plane and I stopped dead, staring down the narrow tube that was supposed to fly us tens of thousands of feet in the air.

“What's wrong?" Eliza asked, turning to me.

“This… is very small."

Eliza shook her head and grabbed my hand. “Come on, it is perfectly safe."

She pulled me to our seats. Like an expert, she sat down and fastened her seatbelt.

I mimicked her. When the plane jolted, I grabbed the armrests and pressed myself into the back of the seat.

“Jared, we're not taking off yet. They'll make a big announcement, it is fine," she assured, taking my hand again and holding it in her lap.

She relaxed in her seat and closed her eyes.

Glancing around the plane, I noticed that everyone else was getting settled into their seats and they didn't seem at all concerned.

Sweat practically poured down the back of my neck. I breathed in and out repeatedly and looked around at the tiny tube that was somehow an acceptable form of transportation.

When everyone was on the plane, the announcement for takeoff was made.

The engines roared to life and the entire plane vibrated.

“And you've done this before?" I asked, leaning toward Eliza.

She smiled and nodded. “Yes. I promise, nothing will happen."

She squeezed my hand comfortingly.

I nodded but I wasn't entirely convinced. It was such an odd contraption. Sure, it beat walking all the way there, but my mind raced with all the things that could go wrong from a narrow, metal tube hurtling through the sky tens of thousands of feet above land.

I clenched my fists as the plane raced down the runway, squeezing Eliza's fingers. If it hurt her, she didn't show it.

My jaw tensed and I ground my teeth together, getting sucked back into the seat as the plane went faster and faster.

Suddenly, my stomach leapt into my throat and I felt like I was floating. I glanced out the window and saw that we weren't on the ground anymore. The plane was in the air, angled upward, and ascending quickly!

I looked over at Eliza and she was completely unconcerned.

Taking a deep breath, I forced myself to relax and try to enjoy this flight.

Eliza was humming the song from the locket. I looked over at her and saw her fiddling with the necklace.

She was doing that more and more, it seemed. Like the locket was somehow a reminder of what we needed to do.

There was something different about her. From the moment we stepped off the boat, I'd noticed it. She was lighter, happier, more relaxed.

Sitting on the plane, a piece of technology she'd been exposed to as a child, it seemed like it was an everyday activity.

like planes in the Dark Realm. It

Realm. She was always on

plane and

give up the luxury and ease of life in the Realm of Light and

her to give up this technology and luxury. I couldn't ask her

I could only hear the song in her voice now. and that didn't

practically glowing. The light behind her from the plane window gave her a beautiful halo, framing her curls and her soft

her glow like that,

her glow like

Eliza and I got our bearings in the

She rubbed her stomach.

something wrong?" I asked,

didn't even have breakfast and then we did all that traveling,"

around the airport for a possible place

tired, too. And my back is a little sore from the plane ride. Maybe we should get a

can put our bags down,

were several large hotels. Right away, I noticed they were all a lot nicer than any place we'd stayed in the Dark

familiar with it. She booked us a room and we dropped

a garden restaurant in the hotel, so we grabbed some lunch

lot to get used to in the Realm of Light, but it definitely agreed with Eliza. She just kept smiling

information. I'm going to give them a call and

are you going to tell

looking for Mila. Do you want me to

finger on the table top and I looked into Eliza's sweet, imploring eyes. I

meet them first. I don't want them to think that I'm after something from

and made

was meeting my own aunt and uncle soon. Family had always been

that I had an extended family, let

to you, too. I was wondering if you and Theo had some time to

was a pause as she listened to Ciana

Jared. Just let me know where you want to meet. We can get to

up the phone and grinned at

is in

ready to meet your aunt and

Eliza didn't

it still made me uneasy. Once Theo and Ciana found out who I was,

enough without

me? What if they didn't like

hadn't felt this insecure about anything

we'd traveled all day. Eliza and I needed to rest in order to get

are you doing in there?" I called to

been in the bathroom for

appeared in the doorway. She looked a little

jumped out of the

I'm not feeling all that well," she admitted, touching

her back and helped her to the bed. “Come on, lie

helped her into