The Essence Of The Darkness
EOTL eps 5: A Mysterious Candidate

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"What do you mean if you find a suspicious background from one of the candidates who volunteered as your assistant?"

The two of them have moved to Akram's office. Xavier's words that he found something suspicious from the background of one of his candidate candidates, made Akram know that this conversation would be sensitive and confidential.

The dining room is not the right place for serious discussion, while the Akram workspace is only allowed to be entered by certain people, just have privacy so what they're talking about inside here will never leak out.

The man sat in a tense manner while watching closely at Xavier, while Xavier put on the opposite stance. His back was leaning leisurely and his legs were fluttering as if in his own home.

Xavier nodded his head. "All the information about this candidate is too perfect. I couldn't find a gap and it made me even feel suspicious. So, I decided to use my connection to do a further search. And the results I found were quite surprising.”

“You said this is related to me and our past,” Akram squinted increasingly suspiciously. “What do you mean?”

Xavier opened his mouth. Then suddenly any sentence that was about to slide from his lips came to a halt, as if he was overwhelmed with doubt.

This made Akram even more curious. The man advanced his sturdy body and leaned forward, so Xavier could clearly see his serious facial expression.

“You know I've been patient enough by letting you into my house and stay here. I even gave up the time I had to be with my current wife, and gave it to you. So, whatever I'm about to say, you better say it right away so we can clear this up right away,” growled with a slightly threatening tone of voice.

Xavier gulped. He never felt desperate and was able to face all situations with a calm attitude. But here at the moment, when he had to face Akram as well as all the problems in the past that followed behind him, his tongue turned twisted.

“I just want you to know that I raised this matter, not to provoke you,” Xavier said later, in a cautious tone.

Akram watches Xavier cynically. “You provoked me so much that I can't remember when you didn't do it,” rebutted it in a slightly mocking tone. “Tell me, and I will decide your intention,” he continued in an impatient tone.

Xavier clenched his grasp before making a sound.“All the candidate's data has hidden layers in it. The data that comes to the surface perfectly is artificial data, although I am convinced that its academic value is genuine. However, the entire background is an artificial background. And I guess, he applied to be my personal assistant candidate for a specific purpose.”

“If he is indeed one of your enemies who infiltrated to take revenge, then I do not care,” once again Akram interrupted with an impatient attitude. “What do I want to know, what does all this have to do with me? Why do you feel the need to tell me this?”

“Because..” Xavier watches Akram closely to learn his reaction. “Because I think that candidate, has a relationship with the Dawn family. You know, the Anastasia family,” he said later, revealing the truth that immediately made Akram's face pale.

The name Anastasia always gives the same effect to Akram. Although no longer stored love in the past for the woman, but the woman still makes her heart as if squeezed sore when remembering it.

One may always wish to remember the beloved who left him in his best condition for the last time. Unfortunately, Akram was not so lucky. He was the first to find Anastasia's body hanging from the ceiling of her hospital room by suicide. And like a curse to Akram, all his sweet memories of Anastasia were shattered already, replaced by the horrifying sight of the corpse figure hanging after previously dying in a terrible way.

“Akram? You okay?” xavier's voice was low, filled with anxiety.

Akram took a deep breath, trying to control himself. He didn't like to show his weakness in front of Xavier. In fact, when now they are no longer hostile, Akram can not eliminate the habit of his past to always be suspicious and wary of Xavier.

Who knew that this foster brother would use this weakness against him in the future?

“I'm fine,” Akram's eyes sharpen towards Xavier though it still looks foggy by trauma. “Continue. What is the relationship of this candidate with Anastasia?” akram violently controlled himself and spoke.

There was a glint in Xavier's eyes as the man watched over his sister. Finally Xavier let out a long sigh and decided to try to explain the tangled threads that had occurred in the past, in accordance with what Elana had proposed to him.

“Akram, about this Anastasia. You know that in the past..”.

“I already know about what you've done in the past. When Elana raised the matter again after meeting you, I did stop her from speaking, but that doesn't mean that I forgot what my wife said,” Akram stared intently at Xavier, his molars hardened as if the man was enduring the pain. “Say I pay the right person to pry all information related to Anastasia and the past..” Akram's voice sounded doubtful. He actually felt uncomfortable because he had to discuss the ugliness of people who had died. But, in any case, this conversation must be brought to the surface to finish what is stuck between him and Xavier.

Xavier watched Akram deeply. “Do you finally know?” slowly tanyanya.

Akram looked at Xavier with a piercing glare.“Yeah, I know. Your whole affair with Anastasia. Whether intentionally or not, you used the Night family's hotel to date Anastasia. And the hallways of the hotel had CCTV where I was free to access,” Akram concocted what Elana had said about Xavier who always wanted to protect Akram and finally said the conclusion he had taken. “You tested Anastasia's loyalty and she finally failed your test, didn't you? So you decided to punish him.”

Xavier looked at Akram with a real sense of guilt. This time he did not put on a protection mask in the form of a smile or annoying attitude that he always used to provoke Akram. What his face displayed was completely sincere without any falsehoods.

“I regret when what I did caused a tragedy for Anastasia. But I have no regrets about having done it, because the woman deserved it,” his heed cruelly. “He deserves to be punished for betraying behind your back without guilt. He even plans to accept your proposal with the intention of continuing to cheat even though you are married.”

Akram snorted, again advancing his body towards Xavier.

“You think, who are you, Xavier?” cut it quickly with mysterious questions.

Akram's question left Xavier stunned. “What do you mean?”

Akram clenched both his hands. “Who do you think you are? The highest judge who has the right to convict a criminal with the cruelest sentence you can give? The vengeful angel who took revenge on behalf of my interests?” Akram squinted his eyes and spoke in a firm and deep tone. “You have no right to condemn those whom you consider sinful in your own terrible way. You should just take a natural step like a human in general,” Akram looked at Xavier deeply while his expression looked in pain. “You should have stayed to tell me.”

Xavier seemed to run out of words, his sentence faltered when he said, “But you love Anastasia.”

“Yes. At that time I loved Anastasia. But you certainly do not forget that I am also a grown man who can make my own decisions. If only you were more health-minded and instead of punishing Anastasia in a cruel way, you could have shown all the evidence of Anastasia's affair to me, I know you have it,” Akram seemed to hold back frustration. “Do you think, that I who, after seeing all the evidence from you, will still decide to marry Anastasia because of being blinded by love? Do you think that I was so stupid, would continue to be blinded by love if at that time the evidence of Anastasia's affair had opened my eyes? Do you think I can't make my own decisions?”

Akram took a long breath. “You assume I can't protect myself. That's why you took the crazy decision to punish Anastasia in the cruelest way imaginable. The incident took away her honor, created a terrible trauma and ultimately drove her to suicide.”

Regrets seemed to overwhelm the entire self of Akram as the man reconnected his sentence, “Jesus Xavier. Anastasia was just a woman with low morals who cheated without guilt. The termination of the relationship was enough to be his punishment. She shouldn't have endured all that torture.” Akram's eyes lifted and immediately pierced sharply towards Xavier. “Because of that, I still can't forgive you.”

Xavier was stunned to hear Akram's last sentence. His lips instantly decomposed into a smile full of irony.

“It wasn't a surprise. I'm used to you always cursing and hating me.”

Acram thinning lips. “I can't forgive you now, not that I can't forgive you later,” he continued in a low voice.

When he saw Xavier's eyes widen with an expression of great astonishment and surprise, Akram raised his hand as a gesture so that they would stop discussing this.

“That's enough. We better stop this discussion before widening away from the core of the conversation. Tell me, what does one of your prospective assistant candidates have to do with Anastasia?”

Akram's words that later maybe his sister can forgive him completely still control Xavier and somehow able to drain a beam of warm feeling layered relief into his soul. However, Xavier chose to follow Akram's words so that they closed the conversation on it until here. Akram's statement is enough for Xavier and he won't be greedy to ask for more. If Akram could forgive him even if it wasn't now, Xavier wouldn't have asked for more.

“Although through a complicated plot, I managed to trace that the Dawn family was the one who supported the funding for this candidate scholarship.”

Akram frowned. “The Dawn family managed to rise from its slump after Anastasia's death and was quite successful in its business, though I see they always avoided dealing with me. As a successful businessman, it is not unusual for them to give several scholarships each year to people who deserve it.”

“Well, it's like that. But this candidate, does not get the scholarship officially like the others. I found funds from the Dawn family after tracing a complicated flow of funds that like being deliberately diverted to three to four names that were as if used to close the trail,” Xavier's eyes narrowed. “As if the Dawn family does not want to be discovered to have provided funds and fees to send this one candidate to school. All of it was hidden very neatly on purpose. If I were to swallow all the perfect data that was given to me, I would not know any of this. Unfortunately, it was my instincts that moved when I saw something too perfect, so my investigators who dug deep could finally find it."

Akram. Seemed to think long.“The fact that by chance this candidate came to you to disguise himself as your personal assistant certainly cannot be ignored Akram muttered slowly, then his raised eyes towards Xavier turned serious. “You have scheduled an interview with this one candidate?”

Xavier nodded his head. “I can handle that interview without you, Akram. I just came here to tell you this information. If indeed this woman had come to me on purpose, I believe she only had one goal.”

“To take revenge on you?” Akram answered with a landslide. “And she's a woman?” tanyanya.

From the beginning Akram thought that the candidate was a man, without question, it turned out that the figure was a woman.

God, what would the Dawn family think if it was them who sent the woman to Xavier?

If he really wanted revenge, a man who was competent in his field was definitely better at dealing with Xavier. But, a woman? A woman obviously will have no future when it comes to facing Xavier.

Akram watched Xavier who seemed to nod his head to answer his question.

This adopted sister had an outwardly capable good looks and a natural charm that almost felt intimidating. The poor woman will not survive if she has to face Xavier. Akram was convinced that there was no need to wait long until the woman fell and surrendered herself at Xavier's feet.

But who knows what will happen in the future? While Xavier has arguably always won against women, previous incidents with Maya have shown an anomaly that Xavier can be unlucky as well. In order to save Elana, Xavier is willing to be seriously injured because of Maya's blind actions.

Who knew that this time Xavier was unlucky?

Akram gulped, refraining from telling Xavier that his adoptive brother should start being cautious now and not hold back before being able to clearly gauge the strength of the opponent.

If indeed Xavier's conjecture was correct, the Dawn family would have had their own considerations in sending the female into a dangerous wolf's den. Just because she's a girl doesn't mean she's harmless.

“Tell me if there is any development,” Akram said later, deciding to undo his intention of saying what he thought to Xavier.

Xavier's not a fool. The man must have prepared everything long before being asked.

The morning was bright, as bright as the other days. In the absence of Akram on the spot due to spending his second honeymoon with his wife, Xavier decides to come in early and work earlier than scheduled.

For a while, when Akram is on vacation and Xavier has yet to find a replacement candidate for his personal assistant, Akram puts Elios in as Xavier's personal assistant and this morning, he's, they have planned a series of interviews with Xavier assistant candidates who have been selected based on the best qualifications.

Xavier stared at the report paper Elios had handed to him and his lips thinned as he requested, Elios had scheduled the suspicious candidate as the first candidate he interviewed.

The sooner he gives the assessment the better. Whatever Xavier's next decision will depend on the results of today's interview.

“Has he come?” Xavier glanced at Elios who had just entered the room curiously.

Elios nodded his head. “She's already in the waiting room,”

A pleasant sense of anticipation instantly flooded Xavier's blood.

“Send him in.”

Elios nodded his head obediently. Then the man came back out of the room to call the candidate.

During the wait, Xavier's eyes were glued to the door of his study. Then, Xavier's wait ended as soon as it started. The sound of knocking slowly rang out, accompanied by a soft mutter asking for permission.

“Come in,” said Xavier calmly.

Before long the door opened, and Xavier's eyes immediately met with the brightest clear eyes that glittered brightly from all the eyes he had ever seen.

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