The Essence Of The Darkness
EOTL eps 23: Engagement

Xavier's words were hard for Sera to digest. The woman bought, looking at Xavier with her mouth agape from the overwhelming shock.

But, judging from any angle, Xavier was completely invisible in jest. After all, the man was too terrifying from all sides to be able to joke around. Xavier looked so calm, crossed while reviewing a smile, looking at Sera casually but memorized, as if he wanted to look directly into Sera's mind to find out what was churning in there.

"Not funny, you know!"

After almost a long time running out of words, Sera finally ventured to attack Xavier with her haughty attitude. His hands may be shackled, but Sera still has a heart and mouth ready to fight against the evil man.

Xavier's reaction was not angry or offended. The corner of the man's lips twitched as if holding himself back so as not to lift up until passing a smile.

Xavier even more seemed to hold amused to face the challenge of Sera. The evil man was laughing at his resistance.

"May you explain what you mean, Sera? Because I know for a fact that I'm not being funny." Xavier's voice sounded sweet, but it was obvious to slip a dangerous threat there.

"P-wedding is sacred, not playful.... You're using it as a joke!" With a stern voice Sera tried to attack Xavier.

Unfortunately, Sera's attack was clearly too weak to at least hurt Xavier's self-esteem. The man seemed to be not affected at all.

"I'm not joking or cracking jokes." Again Xavier replied in a relaxed voice, using a slow pronunciation that clarified each syllable as if he were talking to a child. "In this case, you have no other choice either." Xavier added with a mysterious sentence that ignited Sera's vigilance.

"What do you mean?" sambar Sera with misgivings.

Xavier grinned, not showing the slightest mercy in his tone.

"Your father. Did you forget? He is my guarantee that you will bow to me. And another one...." Xavier deliberately stopped his sentence, as if he wanted to hang Sera in curiosity before dropping her. "Aaron Dawn." said Xavier later, still with a probing look towards Sera.

Sera's face instantly paled, looking at Xavier in disbelief.

"Aaron.. but. but he's already running! Did you catch him?" sera exclaimed in a panicked tone, her reflexes moving her body, trying to sit down even though the dizziness instantly hit her head.

Xavier himself seemed to dislike seeing his reaction, the man moved his hand, gesturing to Sera.

"Stay lying. If you fight back, I won't guarantee what I'll do to them later." Xavier narrowed his eyes, looking at Sera with a scornful look. "Of course I managed to get your hard-earned Aaron that you saved. It was a foolish decision to save him and tell him to run away from me. Because, no matter how he tried to run, that stupid guy couldn't possibly get away from me."

Xavier's words immediately made Sera's body freeze, even with her tongue. Despite that, Sera still tried to make a sound out of her blocked throat, filled with unbearable concern for Aaron's fate.

"W-you caught Aaron... Is he still alive.. Or did you kill him?" sera's voice stammered, filled with horror.

Xavier crossed his arms, looking at Sera as if the woman in front of him was a fool.

"Why should I kill him? He's valuable enough if he's still alive. I can use it as collateral, other than your father of course. With the assurance of the lives of the two men, I am sure that from this moment on, you will submit to me, obey and do whatever I command you."

Sera's expression was filled with horror when she realized that this physical shackle that bound her hand, was still incomparable to the invisible mental shackle that Xavier had intertwined into her soul, by using people who are quite meaningful to Sera as a hostage.

"Take Aaron off. he has nothing to do with this...." Sera begins to despair, knowing that there is no way out for her other than to plead with Xavier.

Unfortunately, the man shook his head, staring at Sera without any mercy.

"Aaron was immediately involved in this matter, once you made a foolish decision, sacrificing your own safety and saving it. From that second on, I made sure that I would never let go of your Aaron," Xavier replied in a thick, half-mocking tone, looking at Sera with a scornful look.

"He's your first love, eh? The first man to have the chance to get into your teenage heart and steal it just by acting like a helper angel?" As he spoke, Xavier moved subtly without a sound, slid off his chair and sat on the edge of the bed.

Xavier's hand cupped Sera's cheeks, forcing her face toward him without turning left and right. Xavier bent down and brought his face closer to Sera who could not move, shackled in the iron bed.

"You must be so infatuated with Aaron Dawn that you are willing to sacrifice your life for him" whispered Xavier with a soft voice, even with his sharp gaze stabbed towards Sera. "What did your Aaron teach you when you were a teenager? Did he teach you to kiss? Or does he touch you in certain places that feel good? Did he tell you to touch him?"

"Stop that vulgar sentence from your dirty brain!" Sera screamed in frustration, deliberately interrupting Xavier's sentence in a loud voice to stop the irresistible sentences that sprinkled from the man's mouth and made his face red with embarrassment. "Aaron is not a dirty-minded person like you, he is kind and treats me with respect, instead of harassing me!" exclaiming Sera revealed her defense of Aaron fieryly.

Aaron, who is known by Sera, is a polite person full of dignity who is also his guardian angel. Sera won't let Xavier trample and harass Aaron!

Unfortunately, Sera's defense even makes Xavier increasingly get the material to demean him. The man brought his lips closer to Sera's lips, then took a gentle bite there and gifted her an unsolicited soft kiss.

"With that denial of yours, are you going to say..," Xavier kissed Sera again without permission before continuing his sentence, "That you have absolutely no experience with men? That I was the first one to hug and kiss you like this, hmm?" Xavier stopped his sentence, busying himself to tease Sera's lips without the woman being able to resist.

"Take me off!" After struggling in vain and being forced to let the man act in a happy manner, but iniquity, Sera finally managed to exert all the rest of her strength and turned her face roughly, releasing her lips from Xavier's pagutan. "What... aren't you ashamed of yourself? Imposing wills on women who don't want you?" then with a breath.

Xavier laughed, as if even pleased as Sera spied on him. The man rubbed his wet lips from the kiss, then moved his thumb to wipe Sera's swollen and moist lips from being kissed all out.

"I don't care if you want me or not. What matters now is that your will is under my control and you are mine." Xavier narrowed his eyes and watched Sera with a sharp look. "If you rebel, I will kill your father in prison and your beloved Angel Aaron. So, Serafina Moon, are you willing to be my wife and also the mother of my children?"

Sera gaped, her face deathly pale listening to something that was probably the most terrifying type of marriage proposal speech the world had ever seen. Other women may be happy to receive such a greeting from the man she loves, but the happiness of other women is certainly different from the terror experienced by her at this time....

Of all the types of marriage proposals he imagined, he never thought that he would receive a proposal accompanied by death threats.

"I want you to give me a formal answer." Xavier suddenly spoke in a demanding tone, breaking Sera from the shock that was wailing her. "Not polite, is it? Letting someone who's waiting for your answer hang up like this?"

Sera frowned hearing Xavier's words, she looked at Xavier as if the man was a lunatic.

"You're out of your mind, aren't you?" exclaimed Sera voiced her thoughts out loud. Only a sane human being imposes a marriage proposal, then asks for a formal answer despite knowing that it is all done under pressure.

Xavier didn't blink. The man smirked as if enjoying his spicy interaction with Sera.

"Say 'Yes, Xavier Light. I'm willing to marry you', say it out loud" Xavier said.

"Then the two people you love will die." Xavier took his phone. "I just pressed the call button and gave instructions to two waiting medics. One will inject your father in prison, and the other will inject Aaron who is still in recovery after being exposed to poison like you. The injection would deliver them immediately to the afterlife with unimaginable pain. The life or death of those two people, it all depends on your decision, baby." Xavier smiled wickedly.

"You can't possibly do that...." Sera was still trying to refute, but inexplicably Xavier's sharp gaze towards her made her voice suddenly get stuck in the throat, unable to speak.

"What's your answer to my proposal, Serafina Moon?" Xavier did not want to retreat, showing firmly his determination to subdue Sera until she fell flat on the ground under his feet.

Sera gulped, knowing that she had no other choice. Although his mouth was trying to deny, but deep in his heart Sera knew how cruel Xavier was and how likely it was that the man killed his father and Aaron without mercy.

What else should Sera consider? From the beginning, Sera never even gave value to herself, she was never valuable, he had already considered that this was just a tool that could be used to save the lives of others he cared about. Now, the same situation was taking place again, and Sera's decision was clear, she had to accept Xavier's proposal.

"I'm willing to marry you, Xavier Light." Sera said the acceptance sentence with a forced tone while gritting her teeth. His hands were even clenched withholding emotions.

Xavier grinned, unable to hide his satisfaction. However, it seems that Xavier is far from finished in his attempt to torture Sera. The man leaned back over Sera, bringing his face closer in a seductive manner.

"I've never proposed to another woman before, so I don't know for sure. But I think we should mark this important and happy occasion with a kiss. Do you agree?" tanyanya brash.

As Sera turned her eyes away in a careless manner and refused to answer, Xavier leaned closer and closer to Sera's face to draw her attention.

"I want you to kiss me." she ordered firmly full of threats, then a second later softened her tone with deliberate false intimacy. "You must really want to give your fiance a kiss, right?"

Once again, Sera was urged to have no other choice. His chest was churned by a bitter frustration, and with a sense of constancy that plunged into his heart and hurt his soul, Sera was forced to grab Xavier's lips that were already available close to him and kiss him.

There's nothing he can do. Although Sera actually wanted to use her teeth to injure the man's lips until it bled and gave indigo to the perfection of his face, still Sera did not dare to do it.

Xavier kept quiet, did nothing and let Sera kiss her lips briefly before she let herself go as if electrocuted. However, he was not as good at heart as it was to let Sera off just like that. His hand again grabbed Sera's chin and gave her a kiss on her lips. This time is really the kind of adult kiss given by a man to a woman as a stamp and a sign of ownership.

Long after, Xavier releases Sera. The man smiled seeing the inexperienced Sera gasping for air, then straightened her back and stepped back away to make room for the woman to breathe.

"As soon as you're declared recovered, then we'll do two main things." Xavier's eyes narrowed in anticipation, as if impatiently doing what he planned. "First of all, we're going to have a wedding and second, we're going to give Samantha Dawn a punishment as a wedding present for you."

"I don't want that kind of wedding gift" Sera shuddered in horror, not daring to imagine what kind of poison Xavier would use to punish Samantha Dawn.

"But I insist on giving you this wedding gift, for I have promised you release for the past which will be my liberation." Xavier raised one hand to signal Sera to shut her mouth and not to argue anymore. The man then turned his body and opened the door of the treatment room, about to step over.

But, when he was already in the doorway, the man seemed to recall something and stopped his steps, turning his head back towards Sera.

"After the wedding. You must give your soul and body to me and be faithful to me. I won't tolerate the slightest kind of insubordination." Xavier's eyes scanned Sera thoroughly and her mouth grinned. "I know that you suffered trauma and harbored a fear of me. Don't you know? I once read someone's comment on my life story, that in order to eliminate your trauma and heal yourself, you must get used to being near the source of your trauma continuously. That's why, I will gladly provide my body to help heal your trauma."

After uttering the sentence that made Sera breathless and horrified, Xavier immediately stepped away and closed the door behind her. Not giving Sera a chance to refute or refute him.

"Cow."

Xavier immediately greeted when he heard Akram's voice calling his phone.

"Have you finished your business in Russia?" Akram immediately asked without feeling the need to mince words.

"Stay a little more, everything went smoothly as planned. But, I'm calling you not to talk about that" Xavier replied in a mysterious tone.

"What's going on, Xavier?" Akram immediately asked cautiously. His sharp ears caught Xavier's slightly wobbly voice as if the man was hesitant to speak. Xavier, who he knew, spoke in an irritating tone of provocation, sometimes full of dark threats. However, Akram knows for sure that Xavier has never hesitated before.

"This is not bad news, even if viewed from a certain point of view, this can be regarded as happy news...." Silent for a moment as if Xavier was confused about stringing words. "I'll marry Serafina Moon" he continued.

You can imagine Akram was stunned full of shock across there. But, the man was finally able to master himself and asked,

"When?"

Xavier unconsciously shrugged despite realizing that Akram across the phone could not see him.

"As soon as Sera's condition allows, it's about a week away." Back nervous, Xavier cleared his throat before asking. "Are you, Elana and Zac willing to come here to attend my wedding? I know it might be sudden, but...." Xavier's voice faltered, as if he was struggling to make his final sentence. "But you're the only family I have and I want my family to attend my wedding."

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