The Essence Of The Darkness
EOTL Eps 19: Aaron Dawn

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"I don't want to come to this place."

Along with the car that drove quickly up the climb and was about to end it in the corner, Sera finally was unable to withstand the pounding again that stifled her chest. He swallowed his pride, turned his head up and stared with a defeated look.

"K-please, I don't want to come to this place."

Unfortunately, compassion is not part of Xavier's self. Xavier would not be able to stand strong at this moment without being hurt by anything if he were to easily wither with mercy. So, even though Sera was currently staring with her wide innocent eyes that looked extremely pitiful, Xavier's heart remained unshakable. The man smirked instead, looking at Sera like an adult who was scolding a naughty little boy.

"You must break free from this rotten family and not escape, Sera." Xavier said what was on his mind clearly. "I told you that I would set you free, that way I would set myself free. So, when I intend to do a clean sweep, then no one will be able to stop me."

"Redged broom?" Sera widened her wide pretty eyes. Fear crawled over him when he imagined what 'clean broom' Xavier meant.

"You're going to kill the entire Dawn family?" pekiknya.

Xavier's eyes glinted vilely. "Do you think I came all the way here just to greet Roman Dawn? You must know better than that, Sera." Xavier took out a small glass tube from behind his suit and then took out a clean white capsule. Then, before Sera could reject him, the man grabbed his tiny hand and clasped it into Sera's hand. "Drink this before we enter the house of the Dawn family," Xavier ordered in a calm tone.

Sera opened her palm and her forehead wrinkled at the unknown capsule. Soon he looked back and looked at Xavier suspiciously.

"You've always told me to take all kinds of drugs... Did you deliberately want to poison and kill me slowly?" tanyanya.

Xavier chuckles. "Stupid. If I really wanted to kill you, then I wouldn't have done it slowly." Xavier's voice turned serious as he connected his sentence. "It's the antidote to the poison that will save your life later."

Sera was completely aghast when she called out her question, "A poison antidote? You gave me an antidote for the poison you had injected secretly into my body? Does that mean you set me free? But.. but why?" Sera's eyes glanced towards the white capsule in her hand. It was completely inconceivable that the antidote to the poison was only in the form of a capsule circle quite simple like this.

Xavier thins his lips full of irony. "Don't dream of Sera, this isn't the antidote to that poison." Slowly, Xavier turned his seat slightly towards Sera. "What do you think I carried all the way in the black box on the plane?"

The question that was diverted left Sera confused. But he also answered, unobstructed,

"Does it contain weapons or poison?" tanyanya guess.

Xavier tilted his head. "Almost right. I don't need a gun because Dimitri supplies everything for my benefit in this country. The black box contained poisonous gas."

"Toxic gas?" Sera asked back. Either maybe because of his intelligence that began to thicken, Sera currently has difficulty connecting the correlation between toxic gases with their previous discussion.

Xavier himself seemed satisfied to have succeeded in leading Sera's opinion to a conclusion.

"Yes. Poison gas. And the capsule I gave you, was the antidote. All my men drank it too. So, if they're exposed to toxic gases, they'll be immune to the effects."

Horror crawled Sera's face. "You... want to do a 'clean sweep' against the Dawn family by using poisonous gas?" shocks surprised.

Xavier seemed unaffected by the shock that shook Sera's head, the man even wore a proud satisfied smile.

"I'm developing a new method of biological toxins, not in liquid form to inject, not in solid form to drink. This poisonous gas is my newest master. Not a normal poisonous gas. This gas, if inhaled by the victim, will destroy nerve cells throughout the body, and in some time, able to kill the victim. There will be almost no survivors of my poison gas, except those of you who drank the antidote before exposure to the gas." Xavier implied a thick murderous lust in his voice. "Don't the Dawn family be grateful? I give them the honor of being the first to taste my poison gas."

Grateful for being the first time trial of a terrible poison? Only a madman would think that way!

The sound of Sera's mind echoed loudly and bounced within her cranium. But, wisely, Sera did not voice it. No matter how much Sera wanted to oppose Xavier, right now he knew that Xavier was being filled with a terrible murderous lust and it was better that Sera did not add any provocation that could provoke Xavier to take action far more heinous than what he was planning right now.

"Why do you look unhappy?"

Xavier's voice inquiring broke Sera's gripping daydream. It took a while for Sera to digest Xavier's question, before then she replied in a straightforward tone.

"You're gonna kill people. How could I possibly be happy?"

"Those I will kill are those who are currently making your life look like they are in hell. You should have clapped your hands and thanked me, "Xavier lowered his head, observing Sera intently. "Are you applying double standards again, Sera? You came to me for revenge because you think I deserve to die for what I did in the past. But, you're not applying the same values to the Dawn Family?" flocked Xavier then with a probing question.

"It's not so!" Sera immediately refuted, almost losing control of her emotions. "I know, based on the atrocities they committed, they deserved to die. But that doesn't mean I...,"

"Are you not a masochist who enjoys being tortured and even falling in love with your tormentors?" sidelines Xavier in a mocking tone.

"I'm not so!" Sera strongly denied. "I mean. I..."

The car suddenly stopped, making the sentence hanging at the end of Sera's lips restrained and not so sprayed.

"Take your antidote. We'll release the poison gas as soon as I finish making small talk and say hello to Roman Dawn and her family."

Xavier's attention was distracted, his focus instantly changing direction on what he was about to face. The man lost his supervision until he did not notice the change in the face of Sera who was struck by fear.

Sera lowered her head deeply. He was afraid of suspicion... He thought about Aaron, yes, Aaron must be in the house with Roman Dawn, because it is Aaron's duty to accompany Roman, because he is his personal assistant.

Xavier was right, Sera probably wanted the entire Dawn family to meet her end at Xavier's hands. But not with Aaron. Sera doesn't want Aaron dead.

Aaron Dawn is a nephew of the Roman Dawn lineage who comes from an underprivileged and orphaned family. The man was adopted as a child, raised, schooled and educated to become his successor after Roman lost his descendants.

You could say that Aaron and Sera, the same fate, both equally entered the Dawn family because of the death of Anastasia. But they are treated differently. When Sera is treated cruelly and tormented, only as a tool for revenge, Aaron grew up like a young master heiress who spent a lot of time with various tutoring and totor teachers to prepare himself to become the successor of the Dawn family later.

However, only Aaron treated Sera well and sincerely in the house of torment. They have been friends for a long time and support each other. Or maybe it could be said that Aaron was the one who supported Sera to survive until this second. The man always smuggles medicine for Sera's rinsed back after being whipped by Samantha Dawn as an outlet for her lust. Aaron also often brought food secretly to Sera when Sera was in prison and could not eat. As for Aaron, Sera is the only peer in the house who can be a storytelling and mutual encouragement.

Aaron is the only hand Sera can hold when she falls. The man was also the invisible binder himself with the Dawn Family. For Sera, Aaron is as important as his family.

And the only reason Aaron escaped Xavier's attention now, is because Roman kept the fact that Aaron was his adopted son and future successor. In everyone's eyes, Aaron was just one of the insignificant and uncanny assistants of Roman Dawn. You could even say as his personal servant who always tailed Roman Dawn everywhere.

And now, amidst Xavier's 'cleaner', Sera trembled in confusion, thinking of how she could save Aaron.

Aaron Dawn read the news sent by his men and frowned.

At the moment, he was standing in front of the window of the library room located on the grand floor of the huge castle which was once one of the resting places of the Dawn family and has now switched functions to a residence for many years length of time.

For Aaron himself, this castle is his home, as his life begins to turn back after he is adopted by Roman Dawn who is his distant uncle, who is, then he was raised well to be his successor in this great castle.

However, there was one thing that always stuck up his mind and made him anxious. It was about Sera. Aaron actually does not agree with the way Roman and Samantha Dawn treated Sera all this time, especially when Roman Dawn decided that Sera was ready, it then sent him straight to pierce his way into the inner circle in Xavier's defensive line to carry out his revenge mission.

They had all ignored Sera's psychological state all along. They didn't even care that Sera harbored fear in Xavier Light more than anyone.

Because of his anxiety, Aaron finally breaks Roman's orders and secretly pays people to watch Sera remotely and report to her. Aaron did it all by ignoring the risk that until he was found out, Roman Dawn would be furious with him.

At this time anxiety is getting settled in Aaron's mind, because he just got a report that since Sera's house burned down in an incident a few days ago, the trail of Sera seemed lost to the earth.

What happened to Sera? There were no bodies in the fire incident. Was Sera kidnapped? If that's the case, is Xavier Light involved in this?

Aaron peeked at the base of his nose which began to throb as bad thoughts began to strike him.

He never agreed to Roman's plan to take revenge on Xavier Light by using Sera. Xavier Light was too dangerous, while Sera was too fragile. If it is like this....

The movement from the view of the gate and the entrance to the main entrance of the castle caught Aaron's attention and diverted him from the daydream. Aaron's eyes were glued when he saw the black motorcade entering the gate without a fight, looking so contrasted with the white snow that covered the road and the pine tree shoots down there.

Any guests coming?

If true, then it was an uninvited guest. Aaron found it difficult to check Roman's schedule this morning, and Roman did not receive any guests because his uncle decided to work from home given his declining health due to a severe flu. In fact, early this morning, Samantha Dawn chose to stay away from her husband and evacuate at the hotel so as not to catch the flu. Her aunt was too selfish and did not even bother taking care of her ailing husband.

Aaron's eyes stared warily at the car that had stopped just below the window where he was standing at the moment. The car door opened and the heartbeat seemed to be stopped when it saw who the figure who came down from the car.

Xavier's Light?

Aaron attaches both palms to the glass in an attempt to make sure and see more clearly. Yeah, he can't be wrong. Just like Sera, she was also plagued for years with pictures and news of Xavier Light by Roman Dawn. After all, that seemingly inhumane good looks, might only be possessed by Xavier Light in this world.

Then, as if the arrival of Xavier Light had not been surprising enough, Aaron saw the man extend his hand to the passenger seat of the car, as if to help others get down from there.

When a fragile hand appeared to greet the helping hand, and a petite figure so familiar descended from it, Aaron's eyes widened in shock.

Sera!

Soon Aaron bounces away from the window, turns around and runs down the stairs, about to head to Roman Dawn who is in his study on the first floor.

Roman Dawn coughed again. This cough was very painful until this morning he woke up with a cramping stomach that felt very painful. The flu that bulges his body defenses quickly, not only makes him dizzy with a watery nose that is very uncomfortable, but also has a painful cough.

His old body may not be able to face the cold winters in Russia are very heavy, so the end of his immune system is overwhelmed when attacked by the virus. Finally, because the pain that tormented his body never subsided, today he decided to just rest at home, he said, treated by the servants because his wife immediately fled early in the morning to stay at the hotel for fear of contracting.

The disturbing sound of galloping steps suddenly rang out from outside the study room where he was half lying on the sofa, making Roman Dawn frown. This morning began with a pleasant silence until Roman had slept comfortably until the sun exceeded half the circumference of the crossing, then suddenly there was an unexpected commotion....

A bad feeling suddenly struck Roman, he tried to get up from his seat was about to step to the door when suddenly the door of his study was slammed open with a bang.

Aaron seemed to be panting in the doorway, approaching Roman who was still staggered in panic.

"We need to get out of here, uncle!" yells. Although Aaron has been officially adopted as his adopted son, Roman Dawn never allowed Aaron to call him father. Roman only allowed her to call him 'uncle' according to their kinship.

Roman Dawn coughed again, as soon as hearing what Aaron said her bad premonition thickened and she felt her heart pounding.

"What's going on?" the question was alert, starting to be hit by a sense of panic that crawled his veins.

"Xavier Light came carrying many of his men. They were all gathering servants and driving them all away from here. Right now Xavier's on his way here and.., uh...,"

Aaron's panicked voice came to a halt when there was an intentional thudding sound coming from behind his back. Both Aaron and Roman turned their heads, and their eyes immediately fixated on the figure of Xavier smiling widely in the doorway.

"Uncle?" Xavier who looked unusually cheerful glittered there. The man traced Aaron's figure from toe to head with a judging look. "I never knew that Roman Dawn had a niece who was an adult, was it possible. You were secretly groomed to be the successor of the Dawn Family?" xavier's eyes narrowed as he said his rhetorical question, while his smile turned into a vile grin. "Then, you should stay here to accompany your uncle. Others may leave, but in order to break the hereditary strands of vengeance, anyone who has the Dawn family's blood on his body must stay to die."

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