Chapter 271: Little Rewards, Little Slaps
Without Giselle Frost blocking the way, the private jet took off soon after.
Serena Blackwood did not want to waste even a minute. She brought Elias back to the States as quickly as the flight plan, the crew, and her own private permissions allowed.
Only once he was back on her ground would she have the confidence to keep him protected. Only there, inside the reach of her people, her house, her company, her doctors, her drivers, her locks, could she make sure what had happened on the plane before departure did not happen again.
Elias sat by the window with one hand propping up his cheek, staring out at the clouds.
The light outside was blinding. The kind of white that made the world look clean from above, as if nothing ugly could possibly exist beneath those endless layers of vapor. He watched it for a while, absent in a way that made Serena's chest tighten.
She was afraid he was still thinking about Giselle.
