The Essence Of The Darkness
Episode 17: Belonging to Acram

"Your lips were supported to taste like forbidden fruit. Yet, every breath excited beetwen our urgents mouth tasted limitless."

Elana opened the bathroom door slowly, tilting her head warily. His eyes immediately grabbed toward the bed, and a sigh of relief was immediately blown from his lips when he found Akram still asleep in the same face down position when Elana left him to take a bath earlier.

The day was already quite noon, before ten when Elana finally woke up and managed to escape back from Akram's deep piercings. His entire body felt stiff and painful as Akram was completely merciless to him all night. Rushing Elana took a change of clothes, half ran to the bathroom and did not forget to lock the door before she submerged her tired body into the warm water bath foamy from the bath tub.

And now, he was refreshed, ready to come out of the bathroom in full clothes that could at least fortify himself from the perverted eyes of Akram just in case the man had woken up when Elana finished bathing.

But thank God, Akram still seems to be sound. And that's not usually, because last weekend where Akram spent his long time on this island with Elana, the man always woke up early and was tidy when Elana opened her eyes.

Maybe because Akram was drunk last night, so he couldn't get up this morning. Elana immediately chanted a curse sentence that contained the hope that Akram would wake up later with a tremendous headache due to a hangover after being drunk. The sex maniac deserves a deadly headache after what he did to Elana.

On the previous weekend, Elana was almost helpless under Akram's control. Throughout the weekend where the man lived here, you could say Akram locked him in this room. The man only let go of his grip when he gave Elana a chance to eat, and that too had to be done inside the room. The rest, Akram will force Elana to serve him endlessly all the time.

But for now, Elana does not want the same thing to happen to her again, she does not want to be locked in a room and forced to serve Akram all day. That's why he had to make it out of this room before Akram woke up.

Half-tiered, Elana stepped across the room, careful not to create the slightest sound. Fortunately, the thick gray carpet that covers his steps is able to dampen the sound that may arise. In an instant Elana reached the front door and pressed a few buttons that had been memorized to exit the room.

A soft 'pip' sound was heard, followed by an open door. Simultaneously, there was a movement from the direction of the bed that made Elana's body stiffen filled with terror.

Just as Elana froze, her heart pounded in fear as she imagined the Awakened Akram suddenly ambushing her, preventing her from exiting the room and dragging her back to the bed. But a few seconds later, when there was no movement and no sound at all from the direction of Akram, Elana ventured to turn her head.

The evil man was still sleeping soundly, only slightly changing positions until the blanket that wrapped his body sagged all the way to the pelvis, displaying his strong and muscular bare back.

Elana's cheeks flushed red and soon she took her eyes off Akram's back. Elana pushed the door wide open and skipped across the doorway before carefully closing it.

Contrary to the rainstorm last night, the morning weather towards noon is quite sunny, judging by the bright sunlight that penetrated through the glass panels of ancient windows decorated with colorful mosaics beside the stairs down to the second floor of the Library was the first place that Elana would go this morning, he imagined relaxing unwinding while opening the wide windows of the library, then taking a seat by the window while reading, letting the sun bathe the pages of books ready to sink his mind.

Elana began to step small down the steps while humming to comfort herself when she heard the sound of a helicopter landing on the runway

Akram frowned as the roar of the helicopter penetrated his room's ventilation ducts and disturbed his eardrums. The sound felt sharp piercing one side of his head that felt a thumping pain to make Akram groan uncomfortable

Slowly opened his eyes and immediately saw how the sunlight had touched the trail of light to all corners of the room, making everything look bright. The storm that was so powerful last night had drawn the sun to do penance, by giving it as bright a ray as possible today.

Unfortunately, the bright light was painful for Akram's sensitive eyes because he just woke up after a hangover last night.

Still half-asleep, Akram closed his eyes again, reached out to grab her, wanting to drown in the arms of the soft feminine arm that he was sure could ease his headache. The side feels empty. There is no tiny body that usually sleeps curled up and easily grabbed with his arms.

Where is Elana?

Akram's eyes were wide open. Stunned, he pushed his body to sit upright and turned back his consciousness that was still drowning under the hangover from his drunkenness last night.

The woman was not in the room.

Akram's heart pounded as the thought that Elana was running away flashed quickly in his head. But, after his logic returned, Akram realized that Elana could not escape from this place. The island is full of traps, heavily guarded and surrounded by tall forts with many wild animals such as saltwater crocodiles and sharks on its beaches and oceans. Elana will first become a corpse before she can escape.

The bodyguards would have been watching Elana's movements if she had stepped out of this room. If the woman is spending time outside the room, most likely in Elana is in the library. Oh, of course Akram knows that Elana often spends her daily time in the library. He always gets a detailed report on Elana's daily activities, and he has a cctv at every point in the villa, which the in-room cctv screen display can only be accessed by him.

Akram touched his head that felt pain, not to mention an imaginary ringing sound that felt tormenting his eardrum. His mind cursed 'Edgor, one of his business relations who had just come to visit this country and invited him to dinner together last night to celebrate his arrival. Edgor has a winery in Italy and dinner with Edgor is always inseparable from the abundant bottles of expensive wine to enjoy. At the dinner, Edgor forces her to taste a rare wine that has been stored for almost a hundred years and Akram ends up tasting more than he was supposed to.

When drunk, his desire increasingly stir uncontrollably want Elana to relieve pain in his passionate body without impingement. So, when the dinner was over, Akram immediately ordered Elios to prepare a helicopter for him to take him to Green Island. Akram doesn't even care when Elios anxiously reports that there is a huge rainstorm that makes traveling by helicopter very high risk.

He got to the island after his helicopter pilot struggled half-dead through the storm, making the helicopter he was riding in shake to the extreme from start to finish.

Akram smiled cynically as his thumb moved to massage the base of his nose, trying to relieve the head pain that tormented him.

The wild little cat still scratches and hates him, and Elana doesn't even know that Akram has risked his life just to meet him on this island

Akram used to be adored and never bothered trying to make women love and crazy about him, because that's the attitude of rejection and ingratitude Elana feels foreign to him.

Is Elana playing an expensive selling technique? Pretending to refuse while aiming for a bigger fish catch?

However, Akram realized that the rays of terror mixed with hatred that lit in Elana's eyes were real and not made up. The woman hated him half to death and was also afraid of him.

Akram moved his hand to open the drawer of the bedside table, took some aspirin from the medicine box and swallowed at once with the help of water from a bottle that is always available next to the bed.

The sound of the helicopter was getting closer. I know who's coming. It was the worker who always came to repair quickly all the damage caused by the previous storm. And there was Nathan riding in the same helicopter. Elios usually sends Nathan to check on him after Akram spends the night drunk.

Akram knew that he had to greet Nathan with a fresh appearance so that the doctor felt that he had bothered coming to this island for a fruitless result. Akram quickly got out of bed, then stepped into the bathroom.

A cool sea breeze instantly grabbed Elana's face as she stepped past the front door threshold to ascertain her conjecture of who came to visit the island. The gust of wind managed to make Elana smile happily. The sun was shining up there, but miraculously, the wind blowing on the island was soothing and pleasant.

Elana guessed that the ones who came were the repair workers who had come before. The arrival of the helicopter is not necessarily carrying human passengers, it could be that the helicopter came carrying supplies of drugs or goods delivered on the orders of Akram. Elana herself knew that for heavy items such as sacks of supplies of food or clothing or furniture, and, always escorted by using a cargo carrier aircraft or large ships that come to unload their cargo every certain period of time.

Elana knew it all because she was measuring and scanning the entire in and out of the island. Although Akram threatens her and frightens her with the presence of bodyguards, saltwater crocodiles and sharks, Elana still cannot resist her instincts to try to escape the tyranny of Akram.

He knew his chances were small, but he also knew that nothing was impossible in this world. That's why Elana refused to give up and tried to find the smallest point of hope. His efforts now begin by recording as detailed as possible the possibilities of access in and out of the island and the details that accompany it.

Spending time in the library is not just for reading. He read in the library that was on the second floor of the villa, deliberately choosing to sit by the large window there to monitor the daily situation clearly from above.

Incidentally Elana can see the view of the island pier, the front gate of the villa, and also the helicopter runway and aircraft from the window. Elana sees clearly when the plane and the ship that sent the goods come, and Elana who pretends to read while turning her back on the cctv camera installed on the roof watches every detail that is there carefully.

Only Ana's aunt and the burly figure who seemed to be the head of security in this place had access to approach and communicate with the supply delivery officer. During the process of moving goods and supplies from ships or planes into the villa, the bodyguards on duty do not seem to lower the intensity of their guard, they keep guarding the gate and watching anyone who comes in and out.

More difficult still, the transporters entered the gate carrying sacks that had previously passed the gate inspection, then they went out empty-handed to be checked again before being allowed to exit the gate. Anyone who came, even the repair workers also received the same treatment.

The tightness of the guard makes Elana think that the plan to sneak into a ship or transport plane without being discovered is almost impossible.

The bustling sound coming from beside the villa woke Elana from her complicated daydream and the sound attracted her. Slowly, his footsteps led him towards the direction the voice was.

The rainstorm last night came with a terrible intensity. Not only did it make the ground around the island muddy and damage the grass in the garden neatly arranged, but it also toppled some trees whose stems were unable to firmly withstand the gusts of strong winds.

The voices that disturbed Elana's daydream turned out to be the voice of people who wore construction officers' uniforms and walked coming from the direction of the helicopter that landed. Looks like those people were brought back to this island to deal with the damage conditions on the island after the big storm last night.

Some people immediately moved to get rid of the fallen tree trunks and began to split the poor tree into small pieces, he said, while others began to repair the roof of the villa that was damaged by being hit by a large tree that fell. In addition, there is another small group that envelops the coconut tree that has been burnt at the end because it was struck by lightning, trying to saw the trunk so that it falls and does not endanger others.

"terrible, right? I myself would immediately refuse if offered to stay on this island. Who knew that suddenly a tsunami hit or a typhoon wiped out this place?"

A foreign voice greeting the unknown made Elana immediately turn her head in alarm. His forehead wrinkled to see a young man - seemingly of the same age as Akram - dressed elegantly at his side The handsome man's face with a flamboyant aura and adorned with a wide smile seduced while looking at Elana cheerfully.

Seeing Elana's suspicious frown made Nathan immediately put on his best smile and reached out to introduce himself. She used to be stared at with a charmed look or a grateful look, so the suspicious look Elana gave her made her uncomfortable.

"Hi Elana, I'm Nathan, Akram's personal doctor. You may have seen me for the first time, but I checked you out at the hospital when you still hadn't gotten your consciousness. Although the other doctor examined you when you came to, I kept a close eye on your condition and was responsible for your healing.." Nathan's smile faded as Elana did not return the friendly hand, the woman even keeps her hands behind her back, as a sign of visible rejection.

Nathan clucked and could not help but smile full of irony that appeared on his lips. It's rare, it seems, that her charm doesn't work for this woman at all. Elana really looks like a woman who is difficult to conquer, inversely proportional to the cheap women who swarm around Akram before.

Deserve Akram to feel the need to impose his will in a way that is brutal enough to make the woman his and also Akram to bother putting Elana to this remote island that Nathan believes his goal is to Elana can't escape.

When unconscious in a thin and pale condition in the patient's bed, Elana looks unattractive in Nathan's eyes. But now, in the swirling sunlight, with her beautiful dress fluttering and hair blowing in the wind, Elana looked so charming, she said, shrouded in an aura of innocence and luminous until it almost looks like a very beautiful forest fairy.

It all provokes Nathan's eye-basket instincts to rise to flirt. Just tempting and should not go further than that because Nathan knows that the consequences will be terrible if he dares to disturb what has been claimed as Akram's.

"If you want to be friendly with me, maybe I can consider helping you sneak out of this island," Nathan's smile widened as he saw Elana seem a little interested, he opened his mouth, about to flirt again, as he looked a little more, but suddenly Elana looked behind her back and gasped as if frightened.

Curious, Nathan turned his head towards the source of Elana's fear and his face paled when he found Akram somehow from when he had stood behind him, just a step away from him.

What was terrifying was that Akram was aiming at the black gun in his hand right at Nathan's head, filled with a thick killing aura.

"Stay away from mine, Nathan. Or I'm gonna blow your head off until you're gonna walk into your grave in a way that's not whole anymore."