Midheaven (Ascendant Trilogy Book 2) by Rebecca Taylor

Author:Rebecca Taylor [Taylor, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ophelia House
Published: 2015-06-16T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Never Letting Go

The luxury of the private plane was a guilty pleasure after the roughness and grime of our trek through India. The cream leather seats felt softer, the plush brown carpet looked richer, the hot meal of roasted chicken, rice, and green beans tasted more decadent when held up in stark relief to the dilapidated conditions and snack foods we’d been living in and on since we had arrived three days ago. I allowed my shoulders to relax, my hands to rest quietly in my lap, and my eyes to drift closed while the plane slipped through the dark night skies, high above India.

High above that little boy in clothes dirty and torn, who had begged me for change.

High above that old woman with bent legs sleeping on the street.

I opened my eyes but their images remained. They were burned into my memory. There would be no private jets, ever, to sweep those people off to a more comfortable place. No easy meal or reclining leather seats. The injustice of it kindled a fire in my heart.

In the dim cabin, a frustrated sigh escaped me and I pushed the button to raise my seatback up.

“What’s wrong?” Caleb asked from his seat next to mine.

“Sorry,” I whispered and gave him a weak smile. “I thought you were sleeping. It’s nothing,” I waved my hand. “Just can’t sleep. I think I’ll work on the box for a while. I’ll move to another row so my light doesn’t bother you.”

“No,” he sat his seat up as well. “I’ll help you.”

Caleb got up and opened the overhead bin above where Aaron reclined, his rolling hill of a belly rose and fell with each of his labored snores. Sophie slept with her headphones on in the very first row.

When he placed the puzzle on the table in front of us, I reached into my shirt and pulled both keys from around my neck, the blue sapphire cross my mother had given me when I was twelve, and the emerald encrusted Aum from Mohan.

I reached for the box and moved quickly through the initial steps, steps my fingers had performed at least a hundred different times since finding the box last year. In the secret compartment, behind the ouroboros dial, I removed the pentagram necklace and my mother’s handwritten note and laid them on the table. The jewels in the two keys sparkled, catching and reflecting the glow from overhead light.

“Pretty soon,” Caleb said taking my hand in his. “You’ll have half the keys. Maybe even by tomorrow.”

I squeezed his hand gently. His words made me feel better, lighter somehow. “I hadn’t thought about it like that,” I confessed. “I’ve been so overwhelmed that we still had so many to find, so many places left to go.”

And scared—I didn’t say. I’ve been feeling scared Caleb because Hayden is my twin flame and I don’t ever want you to find out.

“Are you okay?” he asked

I nodded my head, worried he could somehow sense what I was thinking.

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