The Essence Of The Darkness
Episode 91: Apologies

"Good morning,"

When Elana opened her eyes, what appeared before her was Akram still wearing a sleeping robe. The man was smiling, and carrying something on the tray in his hand.

Unlike the night where the dim darkness enveloped the two of them, this time the morning sunlight was allowed to break into the room and spread its light filled the room from the opened window curtain. Surrounding them was so bright and Elana could see how handsome Akram was when the man took off his pouting mask and replaced it with a beautiful smile.

Elana rubbed her eyes and wriggled, still trying to gather her consciousness. His movements made the blanket he was wearing suddenly sag up to the waist, making Elana nervously grab it and clutch with both hands to be closed to the chest. Elana's eyes stared at Akram vigilantly, fearing that his innocent movements would be misinterpreted by Akram as shameless seducing.

The man couldn't possibly be excited anymore just because he saw his blanket sag, right? After a night of almost non-stop him....

Elana's eyes were fixed on Akram's glittering eyes as she looked at him. However, it seems that Akram's gaze was not excited but fixated on one place in Elana's body.

Elana lowered her head to follow Akram's gaze and realized that the man was staring at the bruises on his body. The pale surface of Elana's skin made the dark bruise appear worse than it should have been. In fact, according to what was felt by Elana herself, it was not as painful as when the bruise was just formed. At that time, it felt piercing and spreading all over the body, making it in pain even just to move the body. Now, as long as the surface was not pressed hard, Elana would not feel any pain.

Since the horrific incident that befell Elana, Akram himself seems to avoid discussing about the attempted rape that almost befell Elana while at Dimitri's house. The man treated his bruises well, applied the ointment as instructed by Nathan's doctor to him and also touched the surface of Elana's bruised skin with extreme caution.

However, Akram almost never talked about the terrible events that happened to Elana. Even so, the memory still felt so traumatic for him, that when Akram did not bring the topic to the surface, Elana chose to drown it deep in her most hidden memories.

With a quiet movement, Akram placed the tray full of breakfast in his hand onto the nightstand next to the table. The man then moved up onto the bed, sitting near Elana while her fingers traverse the surface of the woman's skin with a soft rolling touch like the morning sun in humans who move greet the day.

"It darkens, but the sides have begun to fade, I will apply the ointment back after you take a bath" Akram said softly, turning his gaze from the bruise and returning to Elana's eyes. A restrained silence stretched between the two of them before Akram raised his fingers which rubbed Elana's neck and moved to the woman's cheek, then stroked Elana's cheek gently. "You must have been scared back then" he continued in a hoarse voice.

Elana gulps. His feelings are mixed. Among the horrors that arise due to the memory that floods him, mixed with relief because Akram finally raised the discussion of the chest to the surface, it gives Elana a chance to clean up her heart space filled with trauma.

"I was scared, but I managed to hold on." continued Elana slowly, trying to show a smile to close her fragile self to Akram.

Akram's eyes darkened, even with his expression, as if his memory of the event was stirring a terrible wrath in his soul.

"I knew. I saw the video." said Akram in a dangerous dark tone.

Surprise immediately covered Elana's face. His cheeks flushed between shame and a whacky shock.

"You... Did you see the video?" ask her with a tone repeating the words of Akram. Elana had seen the wicked female artist record the savage rape attempt with her cell phone, but she did not expect that the tape could reach Akram's hands.

"Dimitri sent the man who tried to rape you to me, carrying the video evidence. I immediately finished off the bastard with my own hands," Akram's jaw hardened as the man tightened his molar furiously, "I shouldn't have given him an easy death, I should have checked him first to feel the horror and fear you felt before death to pick him up,"

"Akram," Elana hesitantly touched her fingers against Akram's jaw, trying to defuse the man's anger that seemed to have flared so much that it made her aura look so terrifying. In fact, Elana had to push her courage all the way to the top to successfully move her hand touching Akram's cheek like this.

Elana's touch turned out to affect Akram, the man crept mara, then the rage meyusut slowly. Akram's eyes were glued back to Elana and somehow there was sadness there. Akram grabbed Elana's hand, took her to her lips and kissed the woman's palm.

"You must have been really scared at that time.fought hard to defend yourself from a man whose power was many times that of you. cried out for help but no one helped...."

"But... Dimitri..he came in time and stopped all," Elana refuted, trying to stop the sentence Akram as if without pause.

Akram's gaze grew sharper, and the pain of the pain seemed increasingly thick, smearing the meaning implied in the hazel eyeball.

"I'm not talking about that shit. I was talking about the night that I raped you with savage," Akram's voice sounded raucous, as if enduring an insufferable guilt.

The effect is incredible. Elana's face immediately turned deathly pale, not expecting that Akram would bring the old events that had gone by as if reopening an old wound on Elana's chest.

Instantly Elana turned her face away, driven by the feeling of wanting to escape from the man. Right now he doesn't want to talk about it with Akram. It was the point where Elana's life was turned back forcefully, prompting her to engage with Akram Night in a forced bond of tightness.

In that instant, chaos swept through Elana's mind. What is he doing now? Has he started to fall asleep with the declaration of love Akram to forget his desire to escape and then voluntarily let his body become an outlet of Akram's lust? In fact..Elana even began to enjoy the touch of Akram and was unable to refuse again his appeal... does that mean Elana is already an immoral being who can't even appreciate her own body?

"Elana," Akram immediately grabbed Elana's chin, forcing the woman to look up and face her when she realized that Elana was trying to get away and keep her distance. "No, no, honey. I am guilty of this, you are just an innocent innocent woman before I force my will upon you and pollute you. I need to discuss this not to judge your surrender to me, but so that I can apologize to you properly" Akram's voice was so raucous, filled with earnestness.

Akram's fingers moved up, wiping away the tears rolling down Elana's cheeks when she heard his sentence. Her lips followed, tearing the tears before the man hugged Elana tightly and whispered in her ear.

"I'm sorry for all the bad things I did to you. I apologize for forcing my will upon you, for holding you captive, for keeping you by my side and for forcing you to love me" Akram again gave a kiss on the side of Elana's face close to her ear, "All that heinous behavior I regretted half dead. But the fact that in this second I ended up with you, I have no regrets at all" Akram hugged Elana tightly in her chest, wrapping his two strong arms to embrace the woman drowned in the circumference of his chest that field. "I hope you don't regret my presence in your life either, I hope you're willing to give me a chance to start all over again, so that in the end, you also feel like what I think you are,"

Elana closed her eyes as Akram's words were thrown into the air, entering her eardrum and filling her heart. For now, Elana needs to examine her own feelings. He still can't give a definitive answer. Indeed, now he can enjoy touch and embrace Akram without feeling forced to stifle the chest.... But..is that love? Did ya?

Because deep in his soul, there was a strong mind that always whispered that Akram actually did not really love him. The man may have been confused about his lust for Elana and misinterpreted it as love.

"I love you. That's why I'm asking you one chance to start over. The two of us, take back the same line in different ways.." Akram's voice sounded full of irony, "I'm even willing to take the risk to set you free, for the sake of that one chance,"

Akram's enigmatic remarks drew Elana from her raging feelings. He raised his head, looking at Akram curiously.

"Free me?" he asked slowly, as if unsure of what he was hearing.

Akram smiled, the man lowered his head, unable to resist giving a kiss on Elana's seductive lips.

"If in order to get to you completely I have to let you go, then I will" Akram rubbed the moist lips of Elana with her thumb, then without giving Elana a chance to ask, the man moved swiftly and took back the tray full of food he had brought. Placed the tray on Elana's lap, her smile grew to see Elana's eyes widen with pleasure when staring at the delicious food menu there.

Fresh orange juice, pieces of various berries combined with delicious thick yogurt, warm chocolate milk, croissants with almond fillings and fragrant butter melted and still warm in it, a complete menu of eggs, mashed potatoes and also sausages that are still hot and emit a fragrant aroma because they have just been lifted from the frying pan. Of course it is not Akram who cooks this all, if Akram who cooks must be all this food will only be a horrible blob of charred.

Akram deliberately asked Elios to come and bring this breakfast menu from his restaurant subscription. And his loyal assistant certainly immediately carried out his orders impeccably. Arrive at this apartment on time and bring the order menu perfectly and flawlessly.

Thinking about Elios, Akram realized that he had left his assistant downstairs a long time ago.

Akram gently took a piece of blueberry gargled with yogurt and put it in Elana's mouth that did not resist. Akram chuckled, then again gave a kiss to the mouth of Elana who was trying to chew the sweet and delicious fruit.

"After eating, prepare. I'll get ready too. We're going somewhere" he said slowly in a mysterious tone.

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Elana came down the stairs in a hurry. She knew she had spent a long time in the shower, but just how else, Elana had intended to take a quick shower, but his eyes glanced over the bath tub and he was tempted to soak there. Soaking in the warm water pastilab will feel more delicious, especially Elana's body felt so tired and sore after Akram unceasingly disturbed his sleep last night.

Then while soaking, Elana forgot herself, engrossed in the warmth of the foamy water with the soothing aroma of sandalwood until what he planned from a fifteen-minute shower turned out to be a soak for almost an hour.

After realizing how much time she had spent, Elana dressed up as fast as she could, picked up the shirt that was on the top pile, combed her hair, then ran hurriedly down the stairs in a reckless manner.

Elana's carelessness made her tiny legs stumble on the bottom rungs of the stairs, again she almost fell face down on the carpet that covered the floor. Lucky Akram happened to be near there and the man immediately caught him swiftly.

"Be careful," Akram frowned in looking at Elana's careless attitude. This woman could be carrying a baby and her actions could not only harm her baby but also harm Elana herself.

Elana looked up, trying to neutralize her gasping breath, then looked at Akram with her wide clear eyes filled with apologetic gazes.

"Ma. sorry I took a long shower, I. I soaked and forgot..."

"It's okay Miss Elana, just relax. We were talking about work anyway, so waiting how long isn't a problem, anyway,"

Another voice sounded out from the opposite side, making Elana turn her head in surprise. His eyes widened instantly upon finding another figure in this room besides Akram.

"E... elios?" Elana said calling the man's name with real shock, not expecting that the man would be here. Elios appeared to be wearing his usual glasses, and was dressed casually, not wearing the official dress suit he usually wore for work.

"Ha.. hi Miss Elana... You. you look so beautiful this morning," Elios grimaced as he felt the gaze of Akram's eyes so sharply piercing towards him. If only the gaze could kill, perhaps now Elios was already lying dead with severe injuries all over his body. "I. I came here to pick you up..."

Akram grabbed Elana's chin, then directed the head of Elana who was looking at Elios to return to him.

"Elios will be our driver for today. He'll take us somewhere I want to show you" Akram's eyes glowed mysteriously. Akram grabbed Elana by the waist and let her walk with him out of the apartment with Elios.

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