The Essence Of The Darkness
Episode 74: Mirror of the Self
Across the phone, Dimitri seemed stunned when he heard Akram's unkempt demands. Right now her eyes were still staring warily at Elana who looked so alert with her entire body stiffened, as if so scared just in case Dimitri without warning charged over and attacked her.
Elana's face looked deathly pale, and without Dimitri having to touch even, she knew that Elana was currently trembling uncontrollably holding back fear. Elana's appearance really looked sad, let alone the corner of her lips were swollen and was bleeding due to the slap of Tedy seemed to start to darken. The woman must have been feeling pain all over her body coupled with the trauma in her soul.
Well, which woman is not traumatized by a man of great stature and is so constrained?
Dimitri frowned. There is no other way. He really has to put all the blame on Tedy if he wants things to go smoothly.
Holding the receiver to prevent what she said from being heard by Akram, she approached the edge of the bed and spoke alerting herself to the alert Elana.
"Akram wants to talk to you. Don't say anything, don't provoke Akram's anger and ruin my plan if you want to be free alive" he said in a slow hiss.
Elana did not answer a word, but when Dimitri put the phone to her ear, her pale lips opened to call.
"acram?"
Silence is equally stretched from both sides of the connected phone line. Elana seemed to wait, while Akram on the other side as if trying to overcome the upheaval of his feelings when finally foam heard the voice of Elana that he had not heard since the woman was kidnapped by Dimitri.
"Elana?" the voice of Akram who was half screaming called, the man then cleared his throat as if trying to control himself. "Are you okay?" ask her then with a tone of voice turned soft.
Listening to Akram's voice saying her name and asking her the circumstances, inexplicably made Elana's soul flooded with overwhelming feelings of relief.
Suddenly, she was flooded with an outpouring of feelings that did not know where it came from, bursting so strongly that it made her want to cry sobbing to relieve her overcrowded chest. Fear, horror, trauma, and all sorts of other suffocating feelings seemed to creep up from his chest and gather in his throat, suffocating him there and forcing Elana to sigh many times to calm down.
"Elana?" akram's voice was heard back, this time there was an anxiety-filled nuance slipping in there because he didn't hear any answer to his question.
Elana gulped, with all her strength trying to hold back the cries gathered in her throat, her chest nik down held back the feeling when speaking.
"Akram.. i. want to go home," Elana's voice trembled as hot tears managed to break through her self-defense, making her eyes spread by a clear scroll that flowed out of control. Elana had no idea why or what was pushing her until her strength broke apart and weakened her. Maybe because of hearing Akram's voice, maybe also because the pain that whack all over his body feels so tormenting.
But, right now, what he wanted most was to be by the man's side, then curl up in his strong protection. "Please pick me up. I want to go home.." please come back in the middle of a loud cry, helpless when Dimitri immediately took the phone and cut off Elana's chance to hear Akram's voice again.
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It was not only Akram who was stunned. Everyone who was in the room and listened to the sentence Elana said with a clear tone from across there was stunned with Akram.
Elana's tone of voice, even though the tempak was being held back, sounded so heartbreaking and pitiful. There was a sedu sedan and an uncontrollable sobbing, as if the woman was being wracked by intense fear and sadness. Even Xavier who should have the least amount of empathy among all normal humans in this room was, after all, she could feel her heart squeezing with pain when she heard Elana's tone of voice as she pleaded with Akram to be picked up.
Elana is the most powerful woman they have ever known, she survives under the domination of Akram, she is undaunted by Xavier. But now, the woman sounded so fragile, as if she had lost the despair she had left behind and was no longer able to endure.
Akram's hands clenched tightly until his knuckles turned white. Just one listen, he already knew that his Eagle was not doing well.
What really happened to you, baby?
"You've heard Elana's voice, haven't you? He is alive and can talk. However, I did not guarantee his safety after this. Anything can happen to him if you don't meet my invitation now and make a legal acquisition to make up for it," this time Dimitri's voice sounded threateningly from the cellphone connection.
Akram's forehead creased deeply as he growled his accusations.
"Suckers! Elana is not okay! What have you done to him?" hard without control.
Silence for a moment as if Dimitri was trying to compose words. Soon, the man finally spoke with a series of sentences that seemed to have been carefully arranged.
"It wasn't me who hurt you your woman, but Michaela and a stupid gibber named Tedy who I accidentally sent you as a gift. You're holding this phone, aren't you? Check out the video stored in this phone file and you'll thank me for sending the man in front of you as a messenger to you," Dimitri paused on the sentence before reconnecting, "Remember Akram, I want your and your brother's presence in my house in the next hour,"
After saying his ultimatum, Dimitri did not wait for Akram's response and immediately closed the conversation.
Akram frowned even deeper as he turned his gaze with a murderous glare towards Tedy. Meanwhile, the one being stared at instantly trembled uncontrollably, enduring the overwhelming fear. His slow brain could only understand that Dimitri turned out to throw him into this place instead of as a messenger, but it turned out to be more as a collision.
He was brought here to surrender himself to the lifemakers!
Encouraged by the overwhelming panic, Tedy turned away desperately the man endured the pain on his shoulder that had been shot before and tried to escape while stumbling with his steps, in his last attempt to escape.
Unfortunately, even though Tedy's body is large and very strong, now he is seriously injured, so his strength decreases dramatically. It left him helpless as Xavier's two bodyguards moved without being ordered to curl him up to make Tedy fall with his knees on the floor while his arms were held so he could not get up.
"Don't look at that phone..there's nothing there," frightened as Akram was still pointing a gun at him with a thick killing intent, make Tedy to beg to save his life that is already on the edge of the horn.
Of course Akram did not listen to Tedy's words, Akram's eyes even sharpened staring at the phone in Elios' hands, his expression hardened when his focus was only on the phone.
"Find the file that Dimitri was referring to," with a crack between two teeth, Akram hissed a fierce command to Elios.
Without a sound Elios immediately did as ordered by Akram. The job was easy because there was only one video on the phone. He brought the phone in front of Akram, then brought the screen closer to his master.
"Play the video," Akram growled impatiently.
Jemari Elios presses the play button on the video and is immediately drawn live scenes that have been previously recorded by Michaella with malicious foul intentions.
Everything is in a very clear and real picture. The whole scene of how scared Elana was when Tedy lunged at her on the bed with her huge body, how Elana thrashed with all her might, how the tiny body would not give up and try to defend itself from the violent efforts of the bastard man, how Elana kicked, how the woman pitifully tried to crawl away, and how to run away, until then Tedy managed to catch him by grabbing his coarse hair, then slapping his cheeks in full force....
Everything was displayed there in real-looking visuals and audio, as if it was happening directly in front of Akram's eyes.
The video ends with an indistinctly swaying image and blurred movements. Then the movement in the video stopped suddenly, showing a constant ceiling and did not change on the screen. It was as if the phone used was forcefully snatched from the hand of its recorder.
Then, even though the picture did not change again, there was still a clear gunshot that followed there and was immediately followed by a scream complaining Tedy who was in pain. There were also screams of other women calling out Dimitri's name there. After that there was nothing else to see, the video was dark, pitch-black. Flaming a tremendous outburst of anger inside Akram's soul.
Elana is not doing well....
Akram's eyes were directed at Tedy who was kneeling and begging for mercy. The shadow of how Tedy beat Elana with violence and also the picture of Tedy's attempt to harass Elana's body, instantly abolish all compassion that only a speck left in Akram's mind.
He took aim, pulled the trigger and shot toward Tedy's body uncontrollably. All the rage and the urge to avenge Elana's pain overflowed in her body until Akram continued to shoot like a fidelity. No matter the body of Tedy who collapsed and scattered on the floor after a barrage of bullets lodged in his body. The gunshots remained unrelenting, a craze filled the room and no one dared to stop Akram.
Until then it came to the point where the bullet in Akram's gun was completely unloaded, while the man still pulled the trigger nonstop, with his chest rising and breathing hunting uncontrollably.
Nathan moves later, touching his hand to Akram's wrist, who is still aiming and trying to fire his empty gun at Tedy's body, which is sprawled motionless, be careful to calm the man down.
"Already, it's Akram, he's dead," he persuaded slowly, trying to penetrate the consciousness of Akram who was currently completely incinerated by a crazed rage.
Nathan's efforts succeeded, Akram blinked his eyes that initially seemed almost empty and only contained flames. The man stared at the dead body of Tedy, who was lying agonizingly losing his life after being hit by bullets, then finally lowered his hand which was aiming at his gun.
"We. must immediately go to Dimitri's place." Akram's voice sounded raucous filled with emotion. The man looked shattered, something that had never happened to Akram's steel-sturdy soul before. It was as if there was a gigantic sledgehammer that had currently managed to tear down his soul defense. "We have to get dressed soon..." Akram turned around quickly, forgetting that his condition was still badly injured by gunfire. The pain immediately hit his head and Akram staggered to lose his balance.
He will definitely fall if Nathan is not willing to support him with his strength, making Akram forced to hold on to him.
"Be careful!" nathan exclaimed with real anxiety. "Come, I'll take you to the room" he said firmly with a strong tone of a doctor who was mengultimatum difficult patients face.
Then, without waiting for Akram's response, he, Nathan did not give Akram a chance to give a rejection reaction and immediately sighed Akram's body flipped over before then breaking it into the guest room to prepare himself before leaving for Dimitri's house.
Elios himself who was still in the room hurried to step away, about to prepare all the necessary details for the acquisition process that would occur. His hand moved to pick up his own phone, then started calling the Akram lawyer team who had been asked to stand by at all times, coordinating everything so that the entire acquisition process that took place later biss went smoothly without interruption.
No one noticed Xavier who was still standing rigidly there without a sound with a sinister dark expression. Xavier merely gave a hand signal so that his men would remove the corpse of the disgusting creature from his living room. After his men moved according to instructions, Xavier moved his body and stepped near his living room table.
He picked up the phone Elios had put there before leaving, then played back the video inside, this time in silent mode. Xavier's eyes darkened even more as he looked carefully at the scene after scene that was exposed there. He who was observant could immediately find the figure of a long-haired woman dressed in a menor who had appeared only a split second before then the recording swayed and came to a halt.
Michaelas. That's the name Dimitri said. Xavier knows who Michaela is. He certainly did not miss following the famous artist's affair with Akram who appeared to be in the gray zone, so provoked a variety of discussions full of speculation in the famous media.
Michaelas. Michaelas. Michaela
Xavier chanted the name while his lips unraveled a cruel smile like a killer who had lost his sanity.
Xavier will make sure that he is the one who will gladly give the punishment to the malice-filled, cunning bitch
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Akram who was still standing facing the mirror of his sink had changed clothes. He wore a special gun case to sheathe the complete weapon on his chest, just above the layer of his bulletproof vest. The armband was finally removed after she insisted on Nathan.
They had a moment of tension until then Nathan gave up defeat and helped Akram to remove the arm's support cloth, then replace it with a strong bandage weight coiled on Akram's left shoulder and chest, and then replace it with a heavy bandage, so that Akram's left arm can move freely but his injured shoulder remains propped up and protected.
Akram put on his suit, and his hand moved to open a small tube containing a grain of painkiller tablets that Nathan had given him. He took some of the white tablets, swallowed them with the help of water before Akram switched to look at the mirror in front of him, staring at himself.
His face looked extremely pitiful, with a pale hue of blood loss effect, dark circles around his eyes and disheveled hair.
But at this time, of course, his appearance was not something that Akram was worried about, because now his mind was filled with Elana.
It seems that Akram is starting to understand what Xavier meant earlier regarding his relationship with Elana. During this time, Akram who was haughty always thought how lucky Elana as a poor commoner turned out to be chosen by him. He set the standard selfishly, that Elana should have received with gratitude and grateful attention given.
Drowning in narcissistic thinking, Akram forgets that Elana is a self-respecting individual who has his own human rights and freedoms.
The video of Tedy's recent attempted suicide haunts Akram with a deep sense of guilt. Akram was really angry with Tedy, but his anger turned out to be as great as what he felt for himself.
He also raped Elana, he forced his will on her, he pursued his own lust, ruled by maleness and abominable lust, it did not matter if Elana was crying and struggling with all her might to beg for her mercy.
Just because he's much richer and more perfect in physical appearance, doesn't make him better than Tedy. I knew she was as disgusting as Tedy, and Elana deserved to hate her with all her heart.
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Author notes
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Hello beautiful people!
Episode 74 (which you are currently reading) is posted by the author on Friday (27 September)
Episode 75 will be posted on Saturday (28 September)
Either will pass the review mangatoon when, easily2an can qualify saturday or this week, or if the admin mangatoon holiday review saturday week, may just pass Monday/Tuesday.
Please be patient and pray quickly to pass the review process.
Thank You - by AY
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