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.

Dark

always on the go,

the plane and the

I expect her to give up the luxury and ease of life in the Realm of Light and

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

softly. I could only hear the song in her voice now. and

relaxed that she was practically glowing. The light behind her from the plane window gave her

see her glow

wanted to see her glow

Eliza and I got our bearings in the

She rubbed her stomach.

I asked, touching her

and then we did all that

let's get something to eat." I looked around the

the plane ride. Maybe we should get a hotel

Then we can put our

I noticed they were all a

the hotels, apparently familiar with it. She booked us a room and we

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

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

I'm going to give them a call and schedule a meeting." She pulled her phone

you going to

Do you want me to tell them who you

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

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

and

meeting my own aunt and uncle soon. Family had always been a murky subject for

enough to admit that I had an extended family, let alone that

it's Eliza," I heard Eliza say into the phone. “Yeah, yeah, it is good to talk to you, too.

was a pause as she listened to Ciana on the

friend Jared. Just let

the phone and grinned

plan is in

ready to meet

didn't seem to notice because

to meet my family, it still made me uneasy. Once Theo and Ciana found out who I was, they might think I was trying to extort something from

families were complicated enough without estranged relatives showing

if they rejected me? What if they

I hadn't felt this insecure about anything since I

pants, wearing just boxers, and slipped into bed. It was late and we'd traveled all day. Eliza and I needed to rest in order to get

you doing in there?" I called to

been in the bathroom for a long

looked a little pale, her

I jumped

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

helped her to the bed.

helped her