The Essence Of The Darkness
Episode 14: The Back

"I have to keep breaking your heart"

Elana blinked her eyes thinking she was dreaming.

"Acram?" her trembling lips managed to whisper the question in a frightened tone.

The predator smiled, his eyes darkened. "Yes, little cat, it's me." she replied in a deep voice.

Elana's eyes widened, but she still hadn't gained her consciousness completely. She wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night and finds Akram who should not have been in this place.

The figure that was bent over him, shrouded in darkness with eyes full of desire was clearly the figure of Akram. But Akram couldn't be here, right? Akram himself said that he would only come to this villa every weekend and that was very grateful to Elana because he did not have to spend time every day being a slave to Akram's lust.

Then, lest Elana be dreaming? Does this disturb Akram in his mind so much that he also has to face the terrible Akram in his dreamland?

Impulsively, Elana reaches out her fingers and touches Akram's cheeks, trying to ascertain whether he is in the real world, or really in the dream realm. Her thin and soft fingers touched the warmth of the surface of Akram's skin, and made Akram freeze instantly, filled with shock.

This woman had never wanted to touch herself before, Elana had always been lying still with her stiff body, refusing to give any response to her fondling. Even when Akram was making love to her, just to hug her bare back, Elana did not want to. Akram always noticed that Elana's hand was always gripping the bedsheet underneath, closing her eyes tightly as if praying for it to end quickly.

Akram's hand moved, grasped Elana's fingers, then carried the tiny finger to her lips, giving her a gentle kiss.

"If you think it's just a dream, then go on, consider it just your dream, Elana," Akram brought his lips closer to kiss Elana's lips gently, can't wait to drown herself into the warmth of Elana's body that can satisfy her.

When the early morning has been marked by the fading of dark colors at the top of the sky and the shift of the moon down the horizon to enter the contest, Akram who had just taken a bath stepped up onto the bed next to Elana, wearing only his dark-colored nightgown.

His hand moved to grab the files in the thick map on the side table. The files had been prepared and arranged by Elios neatly at his request. But a few seconds trying to read the file, Akram realized that he could not concentrate. The presence of a tiny warm body next to him seemed to shout his existence, making Akram distracted.

His gaze then turned towards Elana, who was asleep with her face down covered in blankets. Her soft, bare skin was clearly visible, partially covered by a white blanket that wrapped around her body like a cocoon. Akram has made Elana exhausted in the last few hours, so when he freed the woman, no need to wait long, Elana's body was immediately drowned and the woman drowned in her sleep.

Akram could not help but touch his fingers to the tip of Elana's nose, his expression softened when he saw Elana frowning, as if the touch was bothering him, Akram pulls his hand before he can't control himself and gropes Elana's body everywhere.

Although his passion was still strong enough to touch Elana again, Akram could not do it. At five o'clock in the morning, a helicopter was waiting for him to take him back to the capital as there was still a lot of important work waiting for him. He had even taken a cold shower in the morning and froze, only to quell his tempestuous passion as if never extinguished, even though he had many times reached satisfaction over the body of Elana before.

Akram moved his hand to turn on the reading lamp on the side of the bed, focusing his eyes on the beam in his hand. The files are all accounts of Elana's life from her birth to the present day, of her date of birth, of her childhood photos and of everything related to her. Akram orders Elios to remove this dossier until it is not left, so that he can completely remove the trace of Elana from this world, but before, Akram decided to check back in case there was anything he could keep for him to use in the future.

Akram quickly skimmed through the files. His genius brain ability makes him able to read quickly and immediately memorize what he is reading out of his head. Akram has known all of Elana's life history and all the important information about the woman, about her date of birth, about her admirable grades at school, even about Elana's medical history records at the orphanage where she grew up.

Akram passes the files he deems unimportant and decides to destroy them. The more all evidence of her life in the world disappears, the more Elana has no power to escape from it. But then, her hand movements came to a halt as her eyes captured the image of a small photo showing the face of a teenage Elana. It looks like the photo was taken during Elana's high school graduation, before the woman decided to live independently and left the orphanage that raised her.

Akram knows clearly how the tired life that Elana went through until she grew up, the woman since the baby was in the orphanage, without parents who were willing to take responsibility for her existence. Elana worked hard at the orphanage once she was mature enough. The woman doubles up, goes to school during the day and does all the housework in the orphanage, cooks for her younger siblings, cleans the house, washes the clothes of the orphanage residents, and does the laundry of the orphanage, even up to taking care of a small garden in the backyard of the orphanage. As soon as Elana graduated from high school, she decided to live independently, wander into the city, live in a shabby rented house and do menial jobs like being a cashier and toilet cleaner.

The look of sad eyes and tired eyes on the face that was plastered on the photo of a teenage girl in front of him that made Akram fixated. Jemari Akram moves through the photo and her mind seems squeezed by ironic thoughts about how opposite her life is to Elana's life. The two of them are currently together, of course, but Akram's life is much better than Elana's. Akram was born as the young master of a wealthy aristocratic family of highly respected nobility. His parents had an enormous influence both in legal business and illegal business hidden in the shadows of night world violence. And Akram becomes a kara when both his parents die in a yacht accident that they use in their second honeymoon after his father decides to retire from all mundane jobs and wants to spend time his parents sailed all over the world on a luxury yacht owned by their family.

Akram was left behind a kara, but he was left with great power and abundant wealth that will not run out despite being wasted all his life, it is still coupled with various legacy assets and businesses that continue to grow in value. Regarding wealth, money and the necessities of life, Akram never felt how lacking, he always got what he wanted, be it objects or blind worship of people. Therefore, when reading about Elana's life history information that was collected so completely, Akram felt a little guilt about the harshness of Elana's life before meeting her.

Akram puts the entire file on the bedside table, decides to keep a photo of Elana and exterminate the others. His eyes returned to Elana, who was still asleep, exhausted, looking fragile with no self-defense left.

Simultaneously, the door of his room was knocked, making Akram thinning his lips and forcing himself to rise from the bed. With a firm step he stepped across the large room on the third floor of the villa and opened the door, making him face to face with Elios who had been wearing full work clothes in front of him.

Elios woke up a few hours ago. If I may say, he could not be said to be sleeping well tonight. When Akram decides impulsively that he wants to cancel all plans tonight and goes to the villa to meet Elana who has been forced to become his mistress, Elios and the rest of Akram's staff were ready to carry out what Akram had told them. Elios was even so agitated tonight, afraid that he might have misfortune and not be on time with Akram to return to the capital this morning. Today there is a schedule of important meetings with the governor and government representatives, regarding the cooperation of land leases for the sake of expansion of the business empire Akram. The meeting was very important because it involved huge capital transactions and making appointments with government officials required a complicated bureaucracy that took a long time. If until this one meeting is canceled, it will waste a lot of funds and energy for them later on.

And in the early morning, Elios was ready, but he ended up spending some time pacing around Akram's door, between fear and doubt troubling Akram who was satisfying his pleasure in there. However, after he glanced at his watch and knew that they had to really set off if they did not want to be late, Elios finally ventured to knock on the door of Akram's room.

As soon as he confronted Akram, his boss was seen having just finished his bath, with wet hair and a dark-colored bathrobe he was wearing.

"Destroy it all without any leftovers. I'll be ready in a few minutes." after saying his command in a stern tone, Akram slammed the door shut in Elios' face.

When Elana opened her eyes, a bright light filled the room, creeping in through the large window above the room. Elana frowned when she felt her whole body feel stiff and uncomfortable. He wriggled, making the white blanket that covered him sag down to the waist.

Elana instantly felt a burst of coldness touch the surface of her skin and she immediately lowered her head, opening her eyes wide when she noticed her naked body.

His eyes wrinkled as he tried to restore all of his foggy consciousness and memories. I saw Akram's face so close above him in a veil of darkness, that the man touched him and made love to him with an unbearable lust.

Elana touched the surface of her skin that was filled with red marks, a trace that was left by Akram to mark Elana on purpose last night. His eyes immediately looked around in alarm, and his heart was filled with relief when he found no one there.

If last night wasn't a dream, why isn't Akram here now?

The door was knocked and the voice of Aunt Ana, the butler in the villa, asked for permission to enter. Elana immediately pulled the blanket to cover her body up to the chest and then she gave permission.

The door opened and Aunt Ana walked in with a handsome breakfast she had delivered to Elana.

"Good morning, Miss Elana. Sorry for being late for breakfast. I'm getting direct instructions from Mr. Akram to let you fall asleep to the satisfaction and not disturb you until ten o'clock."

Elana widened her eyes, asking doubtfully to Aunt Ana to make sure.

"Was...was Mr. Akram here last night?"

Aunt Ana nodded her head, her eyes looking puzzled as she caught Elana unaware of Mr. Akram's presence last night.

"You didn't realize it? Mr. Akram arrived almost midnight and he spent his time in this room and only left at dawn."

Elana's cheeks instantly blushed red aware of the implied message from Aunt Ana's sentence. All employees in this villa certainly know that Elana is a woman stored by Akram in this villa as his lustful. So, if Akram missed his night in this place, of course the goal is to satisfy his lust for Elana. Therefore, it is strange if Elana was not aware of the presence of Akram in this place last night.

After all...what is really on Akram's mind? Why didn't the man come over at the weekend, at midnight and then leave again early in the morning? If Akram had come only to satisfy his lust, wouldn't he have innumerable lovers willingly serving him out there?

The sound of knocking on the door of his study room made Akram raise his head with a sour expression, he then turned his eyes that were still directed to the blueprint for construction details of the multi-storey building planned to be their latest branch office.

Without even asking, Akram knew who was behind that door. Only Elios dared to knock on his door when Akram clearly said he did not want to be disturbed. Elios will not harass him unless he is pressed, which is why Akram immediately gives the order that Elios enter his room.

"What's wrong?" Akram immediately asked, frowning when he saw Elios' restless expression.

"Mr Akram.... Miss Michaela, she came to see you. Now he was waiting with his manager in the VIP waiting room that had been provided...."