The Essence Of The Darkness
EOTL eps 25: Changing Plans

Xavier opened the door of the room, raising his eyebrows when he saw that Sera was already wearing the clothes that were reserved specifically for her. The man's lips covered a satisfied smile. Then, as was his custom, he extended his hand towards Sera, asking to be greeted without refutation.

Serafina herself was glued, hesitating, unwilling to move forward. Instead of welcoming Xavier's words, Sera folded her arms, looked up and looked at Xavier pleadingly.

He knew that there was no point in fighting the stubbornness of the man, and he understood that pleading would not soften the heart of the man in front of him. However, Sera would not budge before trying to the limit of her strength.

Who knew that if Sera kept trying, the man would listen to her later?

"I don't need liberation by taking human lives.... I. I don't want to see Samantha Dawn murdered...." Sera's eyes glazed over with horror. The shadow of Xavier's poison that could possibly make Samantha Dawn's last seconds die in terrible conditions and full of pain, making Sera tremble in fear.

Sera is not a cowardly woman. He even survives and does not go crazy when confined inside a dark room with photographs of Anastasia Dawn in her most terrible condition.

But Anastasia Dawn was different for Sera, it was because Sera had never known her in a living condition. He never saw Anastasia in person and near her in a healthy, beautiful and perfectly intact condition. Therefore, photos of Anastasia's corpse in a destroyed and battered condition can still be overcome.

The conditions are certainly different if Sera is faced with Roman and Samantha Dawn. Sera knew the two of them closely, she even lived with the two people for many years. He had already seen the two people in good health and alive. When forced to see their condition die, the shadow of death that picks it up does not want to go from his mind, haunting when he is closed in the darkness, come sneaking around like a monster harboring malicious intent to hurt.

Even up to this second, it still vividly reflected the trauma in Sera's mind when imagining how Roman Dawn glared in pain as life was being pulled slowly from her body....

Sera does not want the terrible shadow of Roman Dawn coupled with the memory of Samantha Dawn more equally terrible.

Indeed, the woman was very evil, likes to torture and hurt Sera as her impingement. Even sometimes, when Sera was in pain half-dead by the lash that cut her skin, Sera's heart was shouting a plea for Samantha Dawn to die. However, the flames of vengeance are not worth the magnitude of his morality as a human who values the lives of other humans.

Indeed, when faced with the choice of having to look at the process of Samantha Dawn's death or look away and do not care, then it is clear Sera will choose the second only.

"Are you going to forgive Samantha Dawn for what she did to you, and then set her free?" Xavier narrowed his eyes, looking at Sera with a sharp piercing look.

"He is evil, but that doesn't mean I don't have humanity, am satisfied and laugh out loud to see him in pain before death picks him up." Sera answered quickly, hoping Xavier understood what he was trying to say. "You yourself should not step over destiny and act as an angel of death for them." he continued in a cautious tone.

Xavier put on a smile full of irony. "A killer always overstepped fate, took human lives and threw them out of the book of life that should still be left on the sheet." Xavier shrugged his shoulders. "But all this time, I've always held to my principles. I only kill or injure those who commit grave sins or those who are mentally cruel traitors, those who fulfill my criteria as human beings who deserve to die."

Xavier's eyes showed no guilt at all when he looked at Sera and connected his sentence with one definite conclusion. "I never kill for no reason."

"What about all your employees you inject with your poison? They did nothing wrong to you! They have a family! But you poisoned them without a heart!" Sera refuted quickly, for some reason her heart was crawled with anger.

Xavier shook his head slightly, his lips thinning as he said, "The poison that I took into their bodies is sleeping and will only awaken when they betray me. If they act well while working with me, I can confirm that the poison won't react." Xavier frowned towards Sera. "We're not talking about my employees. We're talking about Samantha Dawn, don't you want that wicked old woman to reap what she's sown for?"

Sera bit her lip. "Not in this way." Sera looked back at Xavier with pleading. "Please, Xavier. With you killing her husband, it's punishment enough for Samantha Dawn...."

"No." Xavier interrupted with a sharp voice. His gaze was full of determination. "I've decided that Dawn's husband and wife should be finished off. That way I will set you free, as well as pave the way for my own freedom. So, no words turning around, we have to finish what we started."

Without giving Sera a chance to make a sound, Xavier stepped forward, then snatched Sera's wrist, forcing Sera to follow him stepping out of the treatment room.

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The journey by car this time seemed to be longer than their trip from the airport to the Dawn Family residence some time ago.

In fact, it seems that the vehicle carrying them has gone through the outskirts of Moscow, through pine forests covered with snow white and also streets that are also covered with thick snow, a terrible twist filled with tire tracks from vehicles that pass through it.

Sera had even fallen asleep several times, she woke up with a sense of dizziness, plus nausea that began to churn and climb up her digestive tract excitedly, vying to reach the trunk of her throat.

Sera's eyes blinked, realizing that her body was still shaking by the uneven and winding road, then her eyes finally opened wide, staring at the entire dark interior of the stifling passenger car cabin, only then did he turn his head towards Xavier whom he knew was sitting next to him in silence.

When he turned his head, Sera realized that Xavier was watching him blatantly. The man did not even bother to turn his eyes for the sake of politeness, and continued to flinch guiltlessly watching Sera with a probing look.

"You okay?"

Xavier finally broke the silence and asked calmly, while his eyes watched Sera with frowns. Sera's face looked pale, like she was enduring pain.

Sera immediately shook her head. "No. I'm not okay. I was nauseous, dizzy and wanted to vomit. Where are you taking me?"

Sera fear. Now, the streets were getting rough and winding, while the ones on their left and right were just lush pine forests as if they were endless, full of a blend of brownish green color and the fall of thick snow piles that dominate.

The vehicle that had crossed with them at the beginning of the journey was no longer there, as if this area was a true area that was very rarely visited by humans.

Because there are no more vehicles that father, it means that the vehicles they ride are really alone on this road. As if to worsen the atmosphere, the snowfall was getting heavier. The snowfall struck a rough white sphere like ice fragments fell on the earth and covered the rays of sunlight, scorching the air around them, so that the atmosphere around them became dark fog.

Don't you think, instead of killing Samantha Dawn, Xavier wants to kill Sera and dump her body in the middle of nowhere?

That thought made Sera shudder, and his attitude was certainly not separated from Xavier's sharp eyes.

"I'm not going to take you to a perverse place. Dimitri's worst-ever prison location is just a few miles ahead. It's close."

"What do you mean by the worst prison location?" Sera snatched, asking what was bothering her.

Xavier grinned. "Dimitri has a prison called hell prison. The prison was meant to torture his enemies that he held. The prison was in a remote location, with poor lighting and air circulation, dirty and very humid, full of disease and filthy animals, and very poor sanitation." Xavier's grin thinned into a smile. "Bad as it may be, I thought that the poison we gave Samantha might even be her savior."

Sera's feeling was instantly suffocated to hear Xavier's terrifying description. Sera knows that Samantha is very clean and hates everything that is dirty, she is also most afraid of all kinds of germs, seeds of disease, and other diseases, viruses and bacteria are almost excessive in maintaining personal and environmental hygiene so that they are free from contamination. It was inconceivable how terrifying it was for Samantha Dawn when she was locked up in that hellish prison.

Meanwhile, regarding the poison that Xavier will give to Samantha....

Sera swallowed her saliva in panic. The thought of witnessing Samantha Dawn's horrific execution made the nausea instantly go into Sera's stomach.

Unfortunately, Xavier who had no compassion seemed to deliberately ignore the pain that appeared on Sera's face and even discussed the plan of execution against Samantha deliberately.

“He will die quickly. You don't have to worry.” Xavier suddenly spoke in a slightly calming but also mysterious tone.

“What do you mean?” Sera immediately snatched. Really, the discussion about death that Xavier talks about in this casual, no-load style really makes his nausea even more so.

“I'll give you a chance to see how much Samantha Dawn suffers. You can even give her a curse, curse or any statement." Xavier watched Sera with interest. "After you say your last words to him, then I will inject a special poison that attacks his brain. The poison moves in the brain and then turns it off, like a switch that turns off a light. Click! Then die.”

The way Xavier described death so lightly made Sera angry. After all, they were talking about human lives here, but Xavier spoke as if they were discussing breakfast menu options.

Does this man really have no heart?

“Is there absolutely no guilt in your heart for killing them all? Have you never been overshadowed by your victims when they died?” asked Sera with a lyrical tone mixed with cynicism.

“It is not you who can determine whether someone is worthy of death or not,” Sera refuted. “I... I don't want to see Samantha Dawn dead, I don't want to say the last word or anything. I just don't want to get involved in anything related to her death! Samantha Dawn is evil, but that doesn't mean I want to kill her with my own hands!” Sera's voice was slightly raised, engulfed in panic as they were already getting closer to execution.

Xavier himself even rolled his eyes as if mocking Sera's hysterical behavior.

“Double standard again, Sera?” xavier asked in a tone full of piercing irony.

Once again Sera looked directly at the man, her eyes full of withering and torment, enduring the pain.

“What do you mean?”

“Didn't you come to my place to kill me? You think I'm evil and deserve to be killed, don't you? Why are you treating a different standard to Samantha Dawn? He's just as bad as me, right? Even his crimes were committed directly to you, using his own hands and his power to torture your body and hurt your soul. In the meantime, what about me? Don't you realize that I've never committed any crime directly to you? Shouldn't you be directing your killing intent towards Samantha Dawn instead of towards me?”

Sera turned her head to hear Xavier's question. His brain seemed to become numb and his tongue froze, unable to deliver a single sentence to answer Xavier's question.

On the other hand, Xavier smiled as his words managed to silence Sera. The man smothered, then turned his gaze away from Sera and looked straight ahead as if their debate had already ended.

The car they were driving was speeding faster along with the snowfall that was getting heavier, while silence rang agonizing inside the passenger cabin. Then, at a time when Sera was still trying to string up words to refute Xavier. Suddenly the man's phone rang.

Xavier's expression when he heard the ringtone of his phone looked surprised, as if the man was not waiting for any call through his phone and the ringing sound of the phone was bothering him, making him feel bad.

“What's up?” without waiting for the person on the other side to say, Xavier immediately answered the call he raised with a slightly intimidating tone of voice.

Sera tried to sharpen her ears to steal the listen. Unfortunately, he did not manage to translate an indistinct muttering sound that was heard from Xavier's phone.

There was only one he could deduce: the person across there seemed to be talking in panic and anxiety.

“Oke.” Xavier spoke sharply and Sera's watchful eyes immediately scrutinized the man's expression and realized that the frown on Xavier's face deepened as the person calling him had finished speaking. “We will arrive shortly,”sheet later.

After hanging up the phone, Xavier advanced the body, pressing the intercom button to communicate with the driver in the front cabin.

“Speed.” The command was short, then closed the communication again. The driver immediately followed orders, accelerating the speed of the vehicle that had been slowly turned into full of fast manoeuvres in the face of increasingly steep winding road conditions.

Even so, Sera's eyes never let loose watching Xavier, trying to assess the change of situation carefully.

Xavier's body, which seemed to tighten, made Sera realize that it was likely that something had happened that did not fit the plan that the man had arranged previously very neatly and flawlessly.

Some time with Xavier, Sera immediately knew that Xavier, who was used to arranging plans in detail and perfection, did not like it if something happened that changed or distorted the course of his plan. Even if the change only occurs in one small variable.

“What's up?” Sera ventured to ask in a hushed voice.

Xavier was unmoved, seemingly too preoccupied with his own thoughts to hear what Sera was saying.

Xavier's residence made Sera's heart pound by a bad premonition.

Did something happen to her father or... Aaron's?

“Xavier?” Sera asked back, trying to attract Xavier's attention, impatiently wanting to get an answer.

The man turned his head this time, his eyes watching Sera sharply like a predator who wanted to swallow his prey round and round.

“A-what's up?” Sera ventured to ask a question when Xavier's eyes instead implied a vile ray and the man never answered.

This time, his question managed to change Xavier's gloomy attitude. The man grinned, looking at Sera with full of annoyance and anger.

“You seem like an unlucky carrier to me. Ever since I met you, all the plans I've made have always turned in the wrong direction. I really didn't like that." Xavier's hand suddenly moved to open a button of his shirt that had been neatly attached, loosening the top of his shirt casually.

Sera followed Xavier's movements and suddenly her throat felt dry with prejudice.

"What do you want?" Sera was finally able to let out a raucous sound from her dehydrated throat.

Xavier grinned wickedly.

"Everything has moved beyond the plan, so, I thought of letting go of my control for a bit and doing what I really wanted to do earlier.", Xavier's eyes narrowed over Sera.

Then, without Sera dodging, the man grabbed both of Sera's shoulders and held her thin body with the strength of his hand. Then, the man pressed his body until Sera's back hit the car door, and in an instant, Xavier caught up with her, docked at her, holding Sera's body with his.

Then, the man lowered his head, his face almost stuck to Sera's face, his lips looking around, not caring about Sera's panicked and desperate head movements, shake his head to avoid the man's hungry lips.

Unfortunately, Sera's struggle seemed futile, Xavier managed to grab Sera's half-open lips, then kiss her mercilessly.

"Fuckin' with all the plans! How...." Xavier whispered between his hot kisses. "If I." Xavier's voice was disjointed because his hungry lips continued to taste Sera's lips greedily. "... have you.... Right now, right here?"

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