The Essence Of The Darkness
Episode 47: Opening the Heart
Elana was so surprised when Akram hugged her. He was just stunned, staring at the head of the man who somehow seemed so fragile and helpless there, completely different from Akram Night who had always been so strong and unshakable.
Because of the fragility shown by Akram, Elana was unable to make herself push the man away. All he could do was put his hand on the man's back. Clumsyly he could only keep quiet, waiting until Akram could take control of him. Elana's own heart began to beat with a strange feeling that she did not understand at all. As if a foreign nuance was created in his heart, an unexpected closeness of heart would be felt to Akram.
During this time, Akram has forced them to be intimate only physically, but never once managed to make Elana feel emotionally intimate. For some reason though Akram is the only man who has ever touched her more than he should, Elana has always managed to keep her heart untouched. Not with an expert fondling or qualified lovemaking ability, but by showing his human attitude and fragility, Akram even managed to touch the emotions of Elana, creating a feel of closeness that he had never felt to the man before.
After quite a while, Akram suddenly raised his head and looked at Elana inside. There was a trace of a red hue on her cheek, indicating that Akram suddenly felt awkward when he realized that he had shown another side of her that had never been shown to anyone.
"So, do you want to listen to my story?" Akram asked in a hoarse voice. The trace of innocence was still tucked away in his tone, but hidden behind his unusual soft voice.
When Akram shows his helplessness and fear, Elana inevitably feels deep empathy. The empathy was enough to make him want to sit there obediently and listen to Akram tell a story. That's why Elana nodded her head, let Akram let go of her embrace, then turned to sit next to Elana and started telling stories.
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".... I'm sure that right now, Xavier is exerting all his efforts to find the female figure I'm hiding. Seeking you. He won't stop until he finds you." Akram finished his long story and almost colonized the entire night with a sentence that was quite scary for Elana
The two of them sat side by side on the sofa, with an atmosphere of peace stretching between them for the first time. Elana had barely said a word since, only Akram spoke. The man didn't cover it all up. Akram recounts in sequence from the beginning of their family raising Xavier as a child, to the events of the abduction that eventually changed Xavier's personality into a terrible one.
Akram's voice falters when he arrives at the tragic story that ends the life of Anastasia, his first lover, causing Elana's heart to somehow throb with pain. Later, Akram continues with the story after Anastasia's death, of her feud with Xavier and their endless efforts to harm each other, where the last incident of their feud is an accident that befell Akram and Elana who were accidentally involved in it.
"You... never tried to talk to Xavier? If he does that..if he attacks and blames you.. You should find a way to talk to him, right? Will you continue to hate each other to death and there is no way to compromise?" Elana ventured to ask after thinking about everything.
Akram turned his head towards Elana and raised an eyebrow, as if Elana was giving a very ridiculous proposal.
"Speaking with Xavier? He might have been too crazy to talk to. Every time I met him and we had a chance to talk, all he did was provoke me so that I would hate him as much as he hated me." I looked at it as if I was remembering the past. "Yet Xavier went through hundreds of counseling without stopping, for some reason it still could not cure his madness. Psychiatrists say that Xavier actually hated and disgusted himself after the kidnapping that happened to him. So, in order to drown out that self-loathing, he turned his hatred on me."
Akram took a long breath. "But no matter how much I sympathized with the abduction, I lost all my sympathies after he killed Anastasia. For me right now, Xavier is an enemy I must destroy. I had held back a long time because of my promise to my mother, but now, I would not hold back anymore if she lured me to the limit of patience." Akram's eyes looked towards Elana and his expression turned dark. "I can't possibly let you continue to live in vigilance and danger. If Xavier has to die for your safety, then he'll die."
Akram's voice was so cold, so full of terrible threats that Elana was horrified by it. Unknowingly both of her hands moved around hugging herself while Elana's mind wandered, overwhelmed by the raging feeling within her soul.
Elana ponders over Akram's words, then she recalls her fresh memories of her last interaction with Xavier tonight. Really, he was still unable to match Xavier in the story Akram with Xavier who met him directly. Because the Xavier he met directly really looked weak and was being so gentle with him.
Akram glanced at Elana's expression and was instantly able to read right through into Elana's mind. Her eyes glinted with jealousy when she imagined that maybe Elana had fallen into the charm of Xavier's physical appearance and outward demeanor that was so dazzling that it was difficult to believe the ugliness of Xavier presented.
Doesn't Elana realize that Xavier's outward appearance and his charming meekness are just a trick to trap his victim into his grip?
"Xavier who interacted with you earlier, was Xavier who didn't know that you were the favorite girl I hid from him. If he knows, his attitude towards you will turn terrible, he will show his true face to you and will not hesitate to torture and hurt you. He will surely destroy you just to spill his hatred on me." Akram took Elana's chin with his fingers and turned the woman towards him. "Don't forget, he's the same guy who could have hung a cat to death strangled and mutilated a dog in his past. He also ruthlessly paid a horde of men to destroy a woman's life. His men who failed to do any work, he killed with twenty-seven terrible stabs that I believe were done with his own hands. In the underground world, Xavier is famous for his cruelty and his ability to kill his enemies in a terrible way. Can you now imagine with open eyes what he would do to you if he caught you?"
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Akram watched Elana's expression that looked furious after listening to her last sentence. Her hardened expression was filled with dislike when she imagined that Elana was still thinking about Xavier inside her head.
"Now, because you already know everything. We can move on to something else." Akram said calmly, trying to make Elana's attention completely diverted to him.
And he succeeded. Elana immediately looked at Akram with a curious look.
"The other thing?" ask Elana.
Akram grinned. "Promise me" he sighed slowly.
Hearing that, Elana's cheeks instantly turned red. "You... You want it now?" elana asked in disbelief.
"I make love to you not only for physical satisfaction, but also for the peace of my soul. Didn't you realize it all this time? You're the only woman who can give both of those things to me at once. That's why you're so precious to me" Akram lowered his head and kissed Elana's forehead gently
The man moved about to kiss Elana, but seemed to wake up later and pulled his head away immediately. "No, I'm not gonna kiss you. You're the one who's gonna have to do it to me."
Akram rested himself back on the sofa and looked at Elana with an eager gaze, letting Elana look back at him in confusion.
"You have to show your good faith, Elana," Akram uttered seductively when Elana seemed to still not understand the point. His voice was gentle despite the implied strong demands there. "You promised" he continued.
Elana gulps. He knew that Akram would not be that easy to just let go. It seems to have been Akram's nature to demand something he had been promised mercilessly. When Elana had promised, the man would pursue her to the ends of the earth until Elana realized what she had promised.
Akram felt that he had benefited Elana by allowing her to go out and go to work, so, the man would definitely feel a loss if Elana did not give her the reciprocity that was worth it.
"What do you want me to do?" Elana tried to lift her chin, showing her determination and self-esteem.
Akram grinned. "You promised you promised, didn't you?" akram's gaze looked probing. "I get suspicious, lest you make a promise without knowing what to do? Don't you know what it means to be active?" asked Akram in a mocking tone that was not covered up.
Elana does not know. It was Akram who was always active, leading everything and Elana just followed. She was just a plain woman who had no experience other than that given by Akram to her. That's why her cheeks flushed in shame, because Akram seemed to always be able to guess her weakness and humiliate her in a landslide.
"I don't know" Elena said softly. "So tell me, what do you want me to do and I'll do it. I'm not a person who likes to break promises, so you can hold my word, "he said with determination.
"Then, apparently I should teach you first." Akram patted his thighs slowly. "We start with the easy things, from what I taught you in the past. Kiss me,"
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That night club was really a lowly night club as spoken by Regas. As soon as they stepped into the clubroom, the smell of the nose-piercing smoke of tobacco smoke instantly smelled, mingling with the smell of cheap alcohol pouring out in the air. The atmosphere of the club was dark and dim, covered by the thick smog of cigarette smoke, and the sound of music pounding loudly from the end of the room, deafening anyone who was there.
The appearance of the club's visitors was no better, they were all dirty and foul-smelling, like cheap drunks who are willing to damage their own bodies by drinking cheap alcohol and burning their lungs with cigarette smoke that pollutes the air.
Xavier used a handkerchief to cover his nose in disgust as he stepped inside the club, followed by his guards, ignoring the curious eye gazes of the people inside the club.
Of course Xavier's bright appearance was bright, so neat and dazzling, so striking when compared to the appearance of everyone in the dark and seedy club. Therefore, many eyes of the humans widened followed by disbelief when he saw the figure of Xavier entering this club.
Some of the young women who sold themselves seemed to be moving to seduce Xavier, but were swiftly removed by the bodyguards escorting Xavier. The bodyguards immediately encourage anyone who tries to approach with a rude attitude, in order to keep the master untouched by dirty hands that are not worth the physical perfection of their master.
Regas who walked beside Xavier seemed to rush to walk with his master and was struggling to show the way. They stepped across the room and finally arrived at the large bar at the end of the room. Regas directly pointed to the figure that was currently sitting on one of those bar chairs.
"That's it, Gabriella." exclaimed Regas loudly, trying to beat the deafening sound of music.
As Regas said, Akram really put Gabriella at the very lowest point of her life. The woman seemed to have also lost the beautiful dresses of famous designer designs she once had, and now ended up wearing a cheap dress decorated by eye-pointing beads. The cut of the dress itself was as if meant to seduce the striped-nose men, displaying clearly her beautiful chest and thighs.
Xavier did not hold back any more steps to get close to Gabriella. She stood beside Gabriella who seemed to be sitting on the bar stool with a blank look, with a large glass of cheap alcohol that contained only a third in front of her. Gabriella's body seemed to be staggering and the woman looked as strong as she could to hold on so as not to fall from her sitting position.
"Miss Gabriella?" Xavier greeted with a soft voice. She had to get closer to Gabriella's ears if she wanted her voice to be heard, because the deafening music didn't stop.
There's no answer. Gabriella's head looked down, then suddenly the woman's body collapsed and her head fell on the bar table in front of her, indicating that she had almost lost consciousness because she was heavily drunk.
"He's too drunk, sir." Regas spoke slowly, telling what Xavier already knew.
Xavier nodded his head, then gestured to his bodyguards. "We can't interrogate here. Take the girl. It looks like he should be our guest at home" he said in a stern tone accompanied by a terrible grin.
Ungoverned twice, one of Xavier's men immediately carried the woman on his shoulder and they stepped up to take Gabriella out of the club.
No one dared to stop Xavier and his men until they left.The club visitors even stepped aside to give way so that Xavier and his men could pass smoothly out of this club. While the club owner who employs Gabriella, only dare to peek and hide while staring at everything. When Xavier entered the club, the club's owner immediately realized who had come and found out how terrifying that person was. Therefore, he did not want to look for trouble and chose to hide.
If he did not want to end up dead with the condition of the corpse intact again, he better not dabble against the terrible Xavier Light.
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"Push water on his face,"
Xavier gave the order calmly. The man was sitting on a chair with his legs crossed, while in front of him, Gabriella who was still lunglai seemed to be sitting just on the floor with her back leaning against the wall.
Morning has begun to approach, marked by a tinge of light that adorns the skyline, providing a way for the sun to tread the sky and rise to its peak in order to carry out the task of shining the earth. Xavier had run out of patience to wait. The woman was still unconscious because her brain had been eroded by the influence of alcohol. In fact, Xavier was very eager to hear the testimony from the mouth of the lowly woman about Akram's favorite woman who created a curiosity so great in his soul.
His men immediately moved to take a small bucket of water, then without feeling like pouring ice-cold water right into Gabriella's face. Instantly, Gabriella's body gave a reaction. First the woman coughed, visibly gasping as her consciousness was forcibly awakened. Then, the woman began to open her misty eyes. At first, Gabriella seemed confused by her unfamiliar surroundings. He frowned as he continued to look around, to then stop when he looked at Xavier who was sitting quietly on a chair, right in front of him, not far from him.
There was a fascination that flashed from Gabriella's expression when she discovered how handsome the man in front of her was. It was as if he was dead and faced with an angel full of perfection. But given the moment her head felt throbbing pain as if it was being hit with a hammer nonstop, Gabriella realized that she was not dead yet.
"Who are you?" Gabriella managed to let out a hoarse voice full of curiosity and asked in a stammer.
The extraordinarily handsome man in front of her was smiling obliquely, while his eyes traced all over Gabriella sharply. Before long, the man stood up, drew closer to Gabriella and stood looming over her.
"I can be your savior, but I can also be a death sentence for you" he replied gently, but implying a truly terrible threat.
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