The Essence Of The Darkness
Episode 28: Become a Target

"It's been a long day, I need ones of those kisses that turns in to lust."

As the bodyguards stepped towards her, Elana's face instantly turned deathly pale in fear that they would open it all up and destroy Elana's chance to work her first day. And Elana really didn't want that to happen.

Is it possible that Akram really had the heart to tell his men to take action in public and drag himself to the place of Akram?

All eyes seemed to follow as the bodyguards stopped right beside Elana's desk. Most of them looked curious and others looked anxious waiting for what might happen.

"Miss Lana?" one of the bodyguards asked, making Elana release her hand from the spoon that had been unconsciously held tightly until it hurt. He was ready for what might happen later.

"Yes?" Elana replied in a weak tone holding back tears.

"I got instructions from the personnel department to pick you up and drive you back to the orphanage. With your status as a trial employee of the CSR program social activities in cooperation with orphanages, it has been agreed that you are given two hours to return to the orphanage to make a review report of your daily activities to the caretaker."

"Be...really?" elana's eyes widened, she did not expect that the sentence would slide out of the bodyguard's mouth.

What kind of reason is that? How could an employee have to leave his office for two hours to make a daily review report? After all, isn't the break in this company just an hour? Why should Elana get an extra hour's work cut in an hour?

Elana looked around, at the faces of her co-workers who were listening to their conversation. And he was astonished to see their faces all seeming to believe without the slightest hesitation about what one of the bodyguards said.

Her senior, Madam Winda, even patted her on the back with the intention of encouraging.

"Go Lana and finish your report, make a good report about us. You're from an orphanage run by a company located close behind this office area, aren't you? We've heard about the company's CSR program represented by you, and we're also hoping that if the program succeeds, more jobs will be opened for orphans like you."

Elana blinked at the sincerity in Mother Winda's eyes. In his heart was filled with guilt for having contributed to the lies compiled by Akram, and the guilt was overflowing, making his chest feel tight.

Elana was finally only able to nod her head with teary eyes. He had no choice but to follow the bodyguards away.

After being taken through a very quiet passageway as if a secret passageway, they stepped into the elevator to ascend to the highest floor where Akram was. As soon as the elevator doors opened, they were immediately faced with a spacious room similar to a giant living room with black sofas of large-sized real leather material lined up in a circle dominating the room, complete with a bar table along the wall complete with various types of expensive drinks on the shelf, which seems deliberately made to entertain guests.

On the other side of the room, Elios was sitting behind his huge desk and full of stacked files.

Elios ordered the bodyguards to leave, then turned his gaze to Elana.

"Mr Akram is already waiting inside, please come in, Miss Elana." Elios' voice sounded flat, but filled with an undeniable commanding tone, while his gaze beckoned for Elana to immediately make a step towards the big door that was the door to Akram's workroom.

Elana gulped and stared at the large, intimidating-looking door before her eyes. He felt a strong urge to turn around and run away, but he knew he could not. The elevator behind his back was just like any other, it could only be used with special cards and codes. That meant Elana was stuck in this place and inevitably had to go through the door and enter into the room where Akram had been waiting for her.

Elana let out a long sigh, then like a farm animal being herded into a slaughter field, she knocked on the door of Akram's room.

A resolute answer rang out from within, ordering Elana in, and Elana clenched her hands together before then stepping inside.

Akram stood leaning his pelvis against his enormous work desk behind him. As soon as Elana stepped into her study, the man's eyes shot up sharply, directly piercing towards Elana with a glint full of threat

In a calm motion, Akram reached out to Elana, gesturing for the woman to approach her.

"Close the door and come here" he said firmly

Elana did not immediately carry out Akram's orders, the woman hesitated, making Akram squint with annoyance.

"I've kept my promise, little cat. Now, it's your turn to keep your promise" Akram said, reminding Elana of her previous statement that she was willing to serve Akram actively and voluntarily if Akram would compromise with her.

Having no other choice, Elana finally stepped closer, and accepted Akram's helping hand.

Without waiting any longer, Akram immediately pulled Elana into his arms and wrapped her arms around Elana's back so that the little girl's body docked to her and sank into her embrace. Akram looked down and drowned his face in the softness of Elana's hair, inhaled a pleasant aroma that emanated from Elana, a gentle aroman who was able to calm the turmoil in his heart because he had not seen the woman all day.

"How was your day?" Akram asked hoarsely, tilted his head and then presented a gentle kiss at the temple of Elana.

"Ba. well, everything's good. Thank you for letting me work," Elana deliberately added a sentence of gratitude so that Akram would still allow him to continue working in the future.

Akram smiled ironically, the man put his face away, then cupped his palms to the left and right sides of Elana's face and looked the woman up at him.

"I'm not well, I've held back all morning, frustrated at the thought of you being in a building with me but I can't sleep." Akram deliberately spoke in a frank tone to make Elana embarrassed.

And Akram succeeds, Elana's cheeks are directly crawled by the red tinge desired by Akram. Nervously, Elana tries to push Akram though to no avail.

Akram grabbed Elana's hands, grabbed her and pulled Elana closer and kissed her.

"Your master Akram is inside, isn't he? Then why can't I come in?!" the beautiful model who became one of Akram's female partners almost shouted at Elios who wore a flat expression and seemed unaffected by the emotions emanated from Gabriella.

"As per the schedule I have, you have an appointment with Mr. Akram at three noon for a meeting with the CEO of Night Entertainment to discuss the production plans for the latest film to be launched next year. It's only two o'clock in the afternoon, you should know that Mr. Akram has a busy schedule and you shouldn't try to meet him outside the schedule" Elios replied calmly.

Gabriella bit her lip with a reddened face as if slapped. It feels like he attacked Akram's assistant who looks like a robot and looks emotionless, but in fact has a very spicy poisonous mouth. Unfortunately, Gabriella can't do it. He knew that Elios was Akram's confidant, and he had to subdue Elios first so that the road was easy to reach Akram.

It took Gabriella an uphill battle to grab Akram Night's attention. And finally some time ago, he managed to get a chance to accompany the man on the bed, feeling how great Akram Night, the perfect man who not only had unparalleled power and wealth, was, but it is also very good at pleasing women in bed.

That's why many women are crazy about Akram Night, including Gabriella. And Gabriella herself who had felt like she had a big catch in her hand, certainly did not want to release Akram Night from her clutches.

She is very beautiful, with Jordanian blood that instills its own charm in her genetics, her body is also very beautiful to the fullest perfection, making herself a top supermodel is contested by so many of the world's elite fashion houses. All of that makes Gabriella sure, that only she deserves to be paired with the incredibly handsome Akram Night. They will be very harmonious when side by side at magnificent events as a couple.

Gabriella is determined to achieve the highest dream that until now could not be achieved by other women. She wants to be the wife of Akram Night. And to achieve that goal, Gabriella was more than ready to get rid of the other women who would otherwise interfere with her plans.

Upon hearing rumors that Akram Night had dumped Michaella, his toughest rival who is an award-winning top artist, Gabriella's soul immediately cheered with excitement. The loss of a stumbling block from his path made him confident that his path to having Akram would go smoothly.

But the problem is, the last few times, Akram seemed to lose interest in him because he was busy working. Several times Gabriella asked her manager to contact Elios to let her know that he was available to Akram, but Elios said that Akram was too busy to see her. Well, Akram is famous as a workaholic, that's why Gabriella finally tried to calm down while thinking, that when Akram tired from the busy work, the man will definitely contact her.

And then, the goddess fortuna seemed to be on her side. He was chosen as the lead in a large-scale film funded by *Night Entertainment. Night Entertainment is one of Akram Night's companies engaged in entertainment* and media. Gabriela's popularity is on the cusp and her fans' enthusiasm for her profession will be over from a supermodel who changed direction to try out role art, it is one of the main attractions why he was chosen to be the main actor.

This afternoon's meeting was a golden opportunity for her, and Gabriella naturally did not want to waste it. She dressed up with amazingly beautiful and sexy seductive clothes, then decided to come an hour early to meet Akram.

Gabriella is determined to use her charms and offer her a pleasant flash of sex before the meeting, to make Akram infatuated with her.

Gabriella believes that when she sees her current appearance and body, Akram must be powerless to refuse her and her plan will run smoothly. Unfortunately, he even had to face Akram's robot-faced herder who insisted on forbidding him from entering the room Akram.

Gabriella also did not dare to insist on breaking in, because she saw two cold-faced and burly bodyguards standing on the left and right of the elevator, staring at them on standby. He was confident that the two would immediately subdue him mercilessly if he forced his will here.

There was no other way, he had to seduce Elios to the point of his death.

"Akram would have been happy to see me," Gabriella lowered her thick voice in a sensual tone, then threw a seductive gaze at Elios. "Come, I have a gift for your Master and he will definitely thank you later for allowing me to go in there."

Elios' expression did not change at all when he replied.

"No, Miss Gabriella. The instructions from Mr. Akram are very clear. He doesn't want to be disturbed for now. Please sit and wait. Mr. Fabian of Night Entertainment has also informed him that he will arrive in half an hour, so the meeting with Mr. Akram will take place as scheduled at three noon." Elios moved his hands full of eviction cues and pointed towards the large black sofa located in the front area of the elevator, close to the large door of Akram's workspace which was currently tightly closed.

A few seconds later, Elios's gaze returned to the door of Akram's open study, and Elana appeared there with some hesitation. The woman must have seen Gabriella on her back and her panicked eyes fell on Elios, noticing that she was coming out of Akram's study at an inopportune moment.

Elana did not expect any guests in the front room, but she also did not want to re-enter the room Akram just to avoid the guest. It was hard enough that he managed to escape from Akram who seemed unable to stop touching his hands to Elana in there, Elana did not want to go back and feed herself to the hungry predator. He just wanted to get out of this place and get back to work.

Elios seemed to understand Elana's facial expression and nodded thinly. Without a sound, Elios made a brief gesture with his hand, telling Elana to pass through Gabriella's back silently and head straight for the elevator where the bodyguards had come back and stand waiting to deliver Elana down, without the need to attract the attention of Gabriella and add new problems.

Not just anyone can go up to the Akram workspace area, and it is an impossibility for a junior and inexperienced cleaning service officer like Elana to be assigned to clean the Akram room. In order to avoid unwanted questions, it was better if not a single outsider saw Elana roaming around in this area.

Gabriella herself was too angry that she did not realize the presence of Elana who was sinking with a quick step about to pass her. The woman clenched her hands together, her face was already crimson with anger, combined with her breathing that began to sting with emotion.

Assistant Akram fucking! Just look later if she has succeeded in becoming Akram's wife, the first thing she will do is ask Akram to throw Elios, beat him to pieces and throw him into the streets!

Quickly, Gabriella turned her body, stomped her wrathful feet and was about to head to the chair that Elios had appointed, but unexpectedly, she said, he even collided violently with another figure who out of nowhere was behind him.

The collision was extremely violent as Gabriella turned the body in full force. Her large breasts and flat stomach hurt, her eyes glaring when she realized that somehow, the collision made the bag carried by Gabriella herself get stuck in the buckle section to her dress. And when Gabriella tried to release her stuck bag with emotion, it even caused a long beret that damaged a thin fine silk dress at an extraordinarily expensive price that he deliberately used to attract the heart of Akram at their meeting later.

"Ma.sorry..me..not intentionally..apologies..." Elana exclaimed nervously when she saw the damage it caused.

And for the sake of seeing that the only one who hit him was a regular cleaning service uniform, the more wrath roared in Gabriella's soul. It was already a human nature that desired to show his superiority and vent his frustrations on those weaker than himself, so when Gabriella could not vent her anger on Elios, she was unable to, so this stupid lowly creature that was now in front of him, was a very soft target and very worthy of being his impingement.

"Basic of lowly trash!! Look at the damage you've done!! Just die you!!" gabriela cried hysterically, evoking all the emotions of her soul.

Before Elios could prevent it, Gabriella had raised her hand and swung it at Elana's face, concentrating all her emotions, frustration and anger into the power of her hand swing. As fast as lightning the woman landed the slap into the face of Elana who could not dodge. The slap with the extraordinary power of the punch until it created a loud sound due to the clattering of Gabriella's palms with the skin of Elana's fragile cheeks, making Elana's face jerked backwards and her legs pushed back a few steps.

At the same time, Akram's office door opened. Akram finds Elana's employee card left on the table and asks Elios to return it to Elana, but instead witnesses an unexpected scene in plain sight.

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