The Essence Of The Darkness
Episode 44: The Weak Lord

"Please."

Suddenly Elana used her wide, clear eyes to plead towards Akram, like a fierce little kitten that suddenly turned tame to beg for elusan.

Akram thinning lips and weighing.

Maybe for now, Elana can still go out. after all Xavier still does not know the identity of the woman that Akram hides as his favorite lover. In fact, maybe Xavier is still not sure of his conjecture regarding whether or not Akram has a lover he kept in secret.

Elana never asked him anything. So, when the woman used all means to plead to him like this, how could Akram possibly refuse her?

"You can only follow the party for an hour. After that, you'll have to find an excuse to leave the party, and my men standing guard near you will pick you up immediately to take you home." Akram squinted his eyes watching Elana's face.

Suddenly Akram was irritated. The woman promised to be active to him from tonight on, and Akram was really impatient to wait for the day to pass until he arrived at the night time where he could make love to Elana and enjoy the active attitude that Elana would show him. It was inversely proportional to Elana who even asked for permission to go to the party with other employees.

Is getting together with those people more exciting than making love to her?

"Where is the address of the restaurant? My bodyguard will keep a safe distance from the employee bus that takes you and watches not far from the restaurant and waits when you say goodbye." Akram decided in a sharp tone and deliberately behaved fiercely so that Elana did not dispute her arrangement. "Just an hour, Elana. One hour. Don't break the promise, because really, I will give you a very heavy punishment if you dare to break your promise."

And indeed Elana did not seem to intend to argue. The woman seemed to know that she had been very lucky because Akram had given her an hour to be free outside the company environment, and can spend time at a party with his co-workers.

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The party was so much fun. The food is abundant and delicious, although of course this is not a restaurant with strange stars as mentioned by Akram to him. For Elana herself, the magnificent situation and delicious dishes in this restaurant include an extraordinarily luxurious standard.

A large stage was set at the end of a room the size of the hall, while in front of it, the round tables were covered with elegant golden-striped white silk cloth circled by chairs covered with matching colour covers. At each of the round tables, full of dishes arranged in a circle, ready for guests to enjoy the invitation that has been arranged to sit in groups in the available chairs circling the table.

Currently Elana was sitting on one of the circular chairs, among her friends who were busy laughing and chatting together while enjoying a dish, while on the front stage there, he said, his happy division head hugged his wife. They seemed to be giving a welcome speech accompanied by nostalgic love song themed music that touched the heart, entertaining all invited guests who came.

Apparently this party is quite large and not a closed party that is only attended by the entire cleaning division in the company. His division headship may only be in the field of hygiene. However, because he served as the division head in the company that became the headquarters of Night Corporation, where the company is known to be very prestigious and has a solid position in the ranks of companies that have a big influence in the country's economy, then the guests who come are not arbitrary guests.

In addition to the division heads at the Akram company, many also come people with elegant suits and dresses that come from outside the company. Guests who came to this party seemed to reach hundreds in number, judging by the full number of chairs circling the table which there were dozens in the large room.

As his friends were busy joking while enjoying the unrelenting dishes flowing amidst the frenzied party music, the singing and joking jest of the Master of Ceremony who escorted the course of the party, Elana quietly pulled out the phone that had been vibrating from inside her pocket ever since. He then placed the phone under the table, right in his lap, then glanced at it silently. His face paled as soon as he saw what was presented on his phone screen.

Forty-eight missed calls from Akram Night

It had been over an hour and a half that she was at this party and she had yet to find any reason to leave the party. As always, parties of this size always start a little late. Currently on the stage there has just begun a welcome event and entertainment at the beginning of the event that is taking place, while the peak event has not yet arrived.

When Elana muttered her desire to go home half an hour ago, all her co-workers compactly prevented her and said it would be rude to the boss if she got home even before the peak event started. And as if increasingly wanting to prevent her from coming home, a torrential rain suddenly fell out there, making Elana lose her reason to leave this party.

He was already half an hour late than he had promised Akram. Elana grimaced at Akram's threat this afternoon, she couldn't imagine how Akram Night was today. Fear crawled her soul imagining what the man would do to punish Elana tonight when she came home.

Elana was so busy with her own thoughts that she did not notice the commotion that started out from the door of the luxurious restaurant. When he noticed the change in the situation around him and raised his head, he saw that everyone was bending his neck in the same direction, trying to penetrate the crowd and looking towards the door of the restaurant.

There was something that caught their attention all this time... until even the music and singing that was played with the party since then immediately stopped and the Master Of Ceremony who had been busy talking with a cheerful tone escorted the party, suddenly remained silent without a sound.

Curious, Elana looked in the same direction, and his eyes instantly widened in shock when he saw the black-clad figures had already entered the door of the restaurant and lined up lined up there as if preparing to give way to welcome the arrival of an important person who was about to enter restaurant door.

Elana's heart skipped a beat when she realized that the bodyguards were Akram Night's bodyguards.

No... No way, right?

Elana calmed down, trying to expel the terrible conjecture in her soul. Unfortunately, the calm did not last long. The figure he feared suddenly appeared on the door of the restaurant, with a cold face and filled with a terrifying dark anger.

Akram Night. It really is Akram Night! The man had actually surprisingly decided to fulfill the invitation and to this party, something he could not have done before in the past....

Akram seemed to be completely indifferent to the head of the hygiene division who immediately took his wife in panic and jumped down from the party stage, in a hurry to reach Akram, hunchback to greet him with surprise.

The arrival of Akram Night to his party can probably be said to be one of the wonders of this century. The division head had indeed given an invitation to his big boss, but it was all done just for the sake of formality with the knowledge that his invitation would not be fulfilled.

Because everyone already knew that Akram Night had never come to his employees' private events at all.

Right now, the division head was truly expressing shock, gratitude and unbearable pride at the arrival of such an important person to his humble party.

"I happened to be near here and decided it wouldn't hurt to stop by for a while." Akram's eyes circled all the guests who seemed stunned by his presence, and he quickly discovered Elana's whereabouts.

Immediately Akram sent a soul-piercing glint of sight towards the woman, making Elana frown and tremble in fear. "I'm only here for a moment, I want to congratulate you on your celebration, take my things, then leave again" Akram continued in a mysterious tone. The man received the wine glass handed to him in a polite manner to reward the owner of the party, but it immediately refused subtly as the head of the hygiene division tried to kindly herd his steps onto the special seat that was instantly provided to him

Elana clenched her hands as the terrible signal sent by Akram from her gaze made her hair stand up. The man would obviously chase, catch and oppress him after this. Elana knows that she cannot run away from Akram, but he realizes that at least he can buy time and make Akram realize that Elana is not that easy to be oppressed by Akram's intimidating and powerful attitude.

Soon Elana got up from her seat, saying a farewell sentence to go to the toilet to her colleagues. But instead of going to the toilet, Elana impulsively ran towards the small door near the toilet area which was an alternative exit from the restaurant.

Unwittingly by Elana, some bodyguards immediately stepped quickly following in the footsteps of Elana out of the restaurant building. Elana herself was too busy with her attempt to escape from Akram She knew that even though she would soon be caught due to the microchip embedded in her hands, at least she had already shown her resistance to the man. When caught later after going through a difficult pursuit process, Elana will be able to face Akram with a haughty attitude full of pride.

When Elana stepped foot out of the restaurant, heavy rain immediately greeted her outside, leaving Elana in shock as a violent gush of water instantly struck her body, leaving her drenched.

He was so eager to escape from Akram that he forgot that it was raining outside...

The sound of galloping footsteps rang out behind him, suddenly sounding out, beating the rush of rain. Frantically Elana turned her head, only to find that there were some people in black clothes who seemed to be moving through the party crowd inside there and trying to get out of the restaurant to chase right at her.

Full of shock, Elana ran through wide sidewalks on the edge of the big road, trying to get away from the chase while looking for shelter from the rush of rain.

The area where the restaurant was located was a high-end business area which although it was currently raining heavily, was, the situation is still very crowded by local visitors and tourists who pass by to fill the sidewalk by wearing umbrellas as their own protection from rainwater spills. On the left and right side of the street, there are a variety of high-class cafes and restaurants as well as several famous overseas brand boutiques featuring types of elegant clothes and bags on the storefront.

Elana kept her footsteps away from the restaurant. He deliberately took a winding path to avoid chasing the bodyguards who followed his steps with no less nimble movements.

Until finally, on one side of a very crowded sidewalk, Elana managed to get her luck, because her pursuers seemed to have lost track as Elana quickly immersed herself with so many humans who filled the pavement. Almost all the pedestrians through the rain with a colorful umbrella in their hands, which will certainly further obscure the view of the pursuers of Elana.

After feeling a little safe, Elana slowed down and paused on one side of the sidewalk that was quieter than the other. Elana's eyes moved scanning the surroundings and finally found a shady spot of rain right across the street. Located on the terrace of a cafe that provides green canopies along the front sidewalk of the cafe to keep anyone who takes shelter under it will not be wet with rain.

Frantically Elana crossed the quiet little road, running fast to reach the shady area. However, in the midst of the intense rain, he forgot his caution and instead crashed into another body that seemed to appear suddenly in front of him just as he reached across the street.

"I'm sorry," Elana staggered back and nearly fell from the collision, her mouth calling for an apology in panic.

Lucky next to the hand of the figure he hit it swiftly holding his body, until Elana did not fall.

"Why are you running around in the rain as if being chased by something evil, little girl? Are there criminals chasing you?" a soft voice from the figure holding her in was heard greeting, not appearing at all a trace of anger even though Elana had smashed into her dry body with her soaking wet self, created a wet stain that tainted the perfection of the man's clothes in front of him.

Elana's own head immediately looked up to see who it hit. It was a slender-bodied man, with white clothes and a thick coat draped over his shoulders, his hand held a black umbrella and his appearance looked as elegant as the princes who emerged from the fairy tale of the fantasy of women who longed for the perfect figure to fulfill their delusion.

When Elana's eyes docked on the man's face, she immediately widened as soon as she saw a familiar face figure to her.

"Lady Master?" Elana immediately voiced out what was in her brain without a second thought.

In his memory, this man in front of him was a sick weak figure he met accidentally in the Akram company employee toilet. Elana did not even believe when Akram called this figure a dangerous figure, because from Elana's own observation, the man looked so weak that it was impossible to kill even a mosquito.

Xavier who also just recognized the figure in front of him immediately smirked with widened eyes as if unexpectedly.

He spends this afternoon following Akram's car out of his headquarters building. He deliberately followed Akram himself in an effort to find out the truth about the mysterious lover of Akram who increasingly makes himself curious.

Unfortunately, Akram seems to know that he is being followed by Xavier. The man even mocked Xavier by deciding to go to a party full of crowds, which Xavier finally found out was being held in the restaurant area by one of Akram's men

Akram clearly knows that Xavier is afraid of the party crowd, because in the past, Xavier was kidnapped in the middle of a big party held by their parents...

Deciding that he had lost this time and knew that he would get nothing by insisting on following Akram, Xavier finally stopped his actions and turned around.

This time Xavier had to go home empty-handed without finding any clues. But of course he will not give up. He will not stop until he can find the truth about the mysterious girl who became Akram's secret lover, then snatch the girl from Akram's hands and smash her to pieces, it is badly damaged and cannot be repaired.

Before going home, Xavier intends to fill his stomach in his cafe, by ordering a cup of coffee and butter-coated pastry that will certainly be very delicious eaten in the rain and cold like this. It might at once be able to restore his somber mood because he had to budge from Akram.

However, it was truly unexpected that he had even encountered such an extraordinarily precious treasure in a place and situation that he was very unsuspecting.

But, the goddess of luck seems to be overshadowing him until he is reunited with this enchanting woman, even before she moves in pursuit of him.

"Lady Master? Is that how you call me?" Xavier smiled so sweetly and was full of glittering dazzling aura, that it might be able to make the beautiful moonlight feel inferior because of it. "I've been called by various nicknames, but 'Weak Master' is certainly not one of them" he continued in a friendly irony winking meaningfully at the woman in front of him.

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