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.

in the Dark Realm. It was

the Dark Realm. She was always on the go, tenacious, and pushing forward. Was that

looked around the plane and the wonder of technology that it

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

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

softly. I could

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

wanted to see her glow like that,

to see her glow

the plane landed, Eliza and I got our

She rubbed her stomach.

wrong?" I

didn't even have breakfast and then we did

looked around the airport

is a little sore from the plane ride. Maybe we should get

put

they were all a lot nicer than any place we'd stayed in

with it. She booked us a room and we dropped our bags

the hotel, so we grabbed

used to in the Realm of Light, but

going to give them a call and schedule a meeting." She

What are you

that we are looking for Mila. Do you want me to tell them who

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

I don't want them to

and made the

about how I was meeting my own aunt and uncle soon. Family had always been a

had an extended family, let

into the phone. “Yeah, yeah, it is good to talk to you, too. I was wondering if you and Theo had

listened to Ciana on

me and my friend Jared. Just let me know

up the phone and grinned

plan is in motion,"

to meet your aunt

and strained. Eliza didn't seem to

made me uneasy. Once Theo and Ciana found out who I was, they might think I was trying to extort something from the royal family, like

complicated enough without

What if they didn't

I hadn't felt this insecure about anything since I was

late and we'd

what are you doing in there?"

the bathroom for

She looked a little

jumped out of

not feeling all that well," she

and helped her to the

her into