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.

nothing like planes in the Dark Realm. It was wild and far

in the Dark Realm. She was always

around the plane and the wonder of

could I expect her to give up the luxury and ease of life in the Realm of Light and come back to the Dark

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

the song to herself softly. I could

was so relaxed that she was practically glowing. The light behind her from the plane window gave her a beautiful halo, framing

her glow

to see her glow like

landed, Eliza and I got our bearings in the

She rubbed her stomach.

something wrong?" I asked, touching

have breakfast and then we did all that traveling,"

get something to eat." I looked around the airport for a possible place

my back is a little sore from the plane ride. Maybe we should get a hotel first and find

put our bags

were several large hotels. Right away, I noticed they were all a

it. She booked us a

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

Realm of Light, but it definitely agreed with Eliza. She just kept

I'm going to give them a call and schedule a meeting."

are you going

that we are looking for Mila. Do you want me

top and I looked into Eliza's sweet,

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

nodded and

how I was meeting my own aunt and

admit that I had an extended family, let alone that I'd be

say into the phone. “Yeah, yeah, it is good to talk to you, too. I was

she listened to Ciana on the

sounds great. You'll be meeting with me and my friend Jared. Just let me know where

up the phone and grinned

the plan is

to meet your aunt

Eliza didn't seem to notice because our food was brought to us at that

Theo and Ciana found out who I was, they

complicated enough without estranged relatives showing

me? What if

I hadn't felt this insecure

bed. It was late and we'd traveled all day. Eliza and I needed to rest in order to get ready for

you doing in there?" I called

in the bathroom for a

the doorway. She looked

okay!?" I jumped out of

all that well," she

to the bed. “Come on, lie down.

her into