The Essence Of The Darkness
Episode 19: Traces of Weakness

"Love is a strange thing, it can make the strongest person weak, and make the weakest person strong."

As soon as Akram stepped with his back stiffly leaving the dining room and into his study, Nathan's doctor followed shortly afterwards without spending breakfast on his plate.

Meanwhile, Elana who was left alone, still seemed to be chewing her breakfast, enjoying it gratefully.

When Elana eats voraciously, it's not all a charade, well, maybe Elana slightly exaggerated how to eat by chewing hard and also put food into the mouth in large quantities that must be quite disturbing for Akram.

The elegant noble lord also chose to rush away without finishing his meal as if he could not bear to eat one table with a barbarian like Elana.

Elana herself was used to being raised in a condition of lack of food, in the orphanage their food dose was rationed in the right portion because they had to save money from donations from donors. And even after Elana came out of the house and lived independently, once in one night she had to endure hunger and pain in the stomach because she did not have a penny to buy food.

So Elana would certainly not waste this plentiful and extremely delicious food before her eyes, just let the two elegant masters there waste all their food without gratitude.

While continuing to chew her breakfast, Elana's eyes were fixed on the tightly shut door of the study after Akram and Nathan entered it. The door that was called by Akram as the door of his study was indeed located in the hallway opposite the dining room, which is why Elana could watch the door from where she was sitting at this time.

When Akram first left her for the city center, Elana spent her first day exploring the villa. He traced each room from the first floor to the second floor curiously. This villa is very spacious and has a hallway with so many doors that connect one room to another. So, if Elana can not memorize the rooms in this villa, it is certain that she will be troubled because she will end up lost and confused.

The butler explained to her that almost all the rooms in the villa are accessible, such as kitchen, dining room, living room, library, music room, etc, the indoor pool and several guest bedrooms are maintained and cleaned regularly despite the empty conditions because no guests have ever come to stay here. Even Aunt Ana said meaningfully that there had never been a female guest brought by her master to this island other than Elana.

Elana pursed her lips in a sneering manner as she recalled Aunt Ana's expression when she said that to him, the middle-aged woman gazed towards Elana so brightly as if Elana should have prostrated herself thanks for being special and getting a rare opportunity to live on this island.

Didn't Aunt Ana ever suspect that there might be women in this world who don't adore and are crazy about their masters? Elana. For her, the cruelty of Akram who had kidnapped her forcibly and raped her and kept her in this place, was enough to make Elana lose her respect and respect for Akram. No matter how high his men worship Akram as their master, in the eyes of Elana, Akram Night is just a cruel man with no heart who does not hesitate to force his will with cruel to others.

Elana opened her eyes as her gaze was directed at the large door of Akram's tightly shut study. The door was arguably a forbidden door because Aunt Ana said that no one could enter the workspace other than Mr. Akram and the person he allowed to enter.

After all, who could go in there if the security was just too excessive like that?

Unknowingly Elana made another sneering lip gesture. The door was clearly blocked with tight security that made it difficult for anyone to enter the room. The security was in the form of a white box sheathed in glass with a very sophisticated digital display and position attached to the door. Elana suspects that it is a fingerprint scan tool that blends with a secret pin code reader that must be inserted appropriately to be able to gain access to the room. And from a small red light similar to a point that flashes endlessly in the box, Elana suspects there are hidden cameras and alarms installed there.

Maybe if Elana approached and tried to break in, the alarm would roar and make Elana immediately bent by the bodyguards who rushed to come.

The question is, what does Arkram keep in the room so that the security can be as tight as that?

Elana believes Akram will not keep money or valuable treasures such as gold bars and diamonds in the safe in the room. As a successful businessman who is very rich, of course Akram will not save his property in a conventional way. The man must have had deposits in local banks and overseas banks in very large numbers, he said, and also definitely rent a safe deposit box at reputable banks to store their valuable assets other than money.

If not money..is it possible that Akram kept his dark secret in the room, or perhaps even?

Elana may be naive and inexperienced, but she is not stupid. He knows that Akram not only moves in the legal business world during the day, but also controls the underground world at night. An ordinary businessman couldn't possibly have so many bodyguards to look after him, and so... Elana still remembers how Akram put a gun on her and threw the threat of retraction without blinking at all.

Akram's cold expression and the way he held a very skilled gun made Elana sure that Akram was very experienced in holding weapons, even most likely Akram had taken so many lives with his hands.

In that case, Elana must be very careful to face Akram. His escape attempt had to be structured very well without any single point of error. Elana knew that she had to keep her patience, keep quiet and make observations to minimize failure. Because, if until he fails to escape, not only does he have to face the wrath of Akram, he might miss a second chance to escape again because Akram would definitely tighten the guard many times over him.

Elana took a sip of her last batch of chocolates that had begun to cool down, then stood up from her place. For a moment he felt confused about where to direct his body, then finally chose the library as his refuge.

Last week when Akram spent his weekend in this place, the man actually used Elana's body to satisfy his lust without stopping. Akram did not even allow Elana to leave her private room on the third floor of the villa, ordered the servants to deliver their food to the room, then locked the door back to lock Elana up to stay in the room.

This time Elana obviously didn't want the same thing to happen. He must try hard to avoid the maniac sex damn if he wants his body saved from the months of Akram. And the library might be the place to be. There Elana could bury herself among the pile of books while praying that Akram was hit by a lot of problems until stuck forever in her study.

Along the walls are full of thick, bulletproof glass boxes that are impenetrable and equipped with that special safety, he said, lined walls of various weapons as part of Akram's collection in various shapes and sizes. The strength of the weapon is also varied, from being able to create damage only similar to a small hole in the body due to a bullet, to being able to blow up the human body if fired at close range.

In addition to having the skills to use various types of weapons, Akram does like to collect a variety of weapons, especially firearms that are in accordance with his specialization. Most of the collection is imported from various countries producing weapons of the highest quality, even some are rare weapons that only half a finger count in this world. The weapons are officially licensed, some are obtained illegally. For this reason, Akram places most of his collection in Green Island villas that are closed from outside.

But at this moment, Akram's eyes were not at all interested in staring at his collection. His view was on the documents Elios had entrusted to Nathan to hand over to him.

The documents are a large number, copies of all the proof files that Elios had collected as his responsibility under Akram's orders.

Yesterday after Akram asked Elios to remove all evidence of Elana's life, Akram had the idea to order Elios to use all available resources to investigate the origin of Elana.Aram's purpose to do it was certainly not to help Elana find the roots of her life, but for her own sake.

With Elana in the same position, with no relatives, family or friends to love, Akram knows that she has nothing she can use as a weapon to suppress the woman.

In addition to using the hidden rotten secrets of his enemies to blackmail them into following Akram's will, Akram will usually use the weakness of human feelings that are always bound to people who mean to him, whether parents, siblings, relatives, lovers, close friends and so on.

In his harsh world and filled with enemies who prepared to attack when he was off guard, Akram is often faced with people who are not afraid of losing their lives but are easily repulsed if their loved ones are taken hostage.

The weakness was able to make Akram easily suppress the people he wanted. Say like Akram finds a spy from the enemy who does not want to unlock his secret, Akram just stay looking for the person most loved by the spy, taking him hostage with the threat of being wiped out if the spy won't open his mouth. And of course that method usually works brilliantly. Because of love and fear of losing a loved one, it is the greatest form of human weakness that a bad person like himself can take advantage of.

But facing Elana, that whole heartless method was completely unenforceable. Akram has researched Elana's life before meeting her in as much detail as possible, and the woman lives so cleanly and straight that she has no rotten secrets to use to blackmail her. Elana is also a kara, tends to be individual and independent so that does not have people so close that can be used to threaten her.

That is why Akram ordered Elios to find out about the origin of Elana, to find anything he could use as a weapon to make Elana obey him.

And as he expected, Elios never let him down.

In the neatly arranged files, it is revealed who the woman who is likely to be Elana's biological mother. The woman was an underage teenager who conceived out of wedlock, with no identity and ran away from her family. The woman then gave birth in a small practice owned by a midwife who was in the suburbs at the mercy of the midwife. A few days later, the woman fled the midwife's practice and was never heard from again. Just two days later, Elios discovers that Elana's baby was abandoned at the orphanage, just two blocks from where the midwife's practice is located.

What a wonderful coincidence, right? For some reason in the past there was no one who connected these two events. Maybe because in the past no one would bother to find out the origin of an unidentifying baby left just like that in front of an orphanage

Though if examined further, not only that the instructions are clearly plastered in front of the eyes. There are other clues that further corroborate the allegations about Elana's biological mother. According to the data obtained by Elios from the archives where the midwife practice, the midwife apparently noted that there is a typical birthmark of a baby born to a woman without the identity, the, a circular birthmark with a young color almost white on the hips of the baby. And Akram saw and confirmed with his own eyes that Elana had the same birthmark as the baby.

As it is clear enough, Akram continues to order Elios to dig deeper, searching for the identity of the mysterious woman. Elios returns to carrying out his duties well, going through all the clues, of course with the help of a very skilled private detective, until finally he can find the true identity of Elana's biological mother.

Akram holds the file of Elios' report that Natahan brought to him, and his face is grim when reading the results. It turns out that Akram can't use Elana's biological mother to suppress and threaten Elana.

The woman who became Elana's birth mother turned out to have died five years ago.

"The biological mother of Elana died alone" Nathan said, splitting the silence to make Akram's hand about to turn the page of the file stop, "I mean alone in the real sense. She was literally alone, had no siblings, no parents, and even her husband had died years earlier. Elios said he also looked at the distant relatives of Elana's birth mother and found that they had broken up a long time ago."

"So indeed Elana is really a kara in this world." Akram concluded, his forehead creased deeper as he twisted his brain and thought what other methods he could use to threaten the woman and make her obedient.