Chapitre 10: 'Goodbye Self!'
"Here it is. Congratulations Master Akki!" Lawrence greeted while handing over the marriage contract to Akki. He went to the driver's seat and started to drive the car.
They usually went out extra careful with one car in front and one at the back while Akki's car is in the middle. But now, since Akki wanted to make it confidential, he went out with only Lawrence on his side.
Akki read the paper and checked it again. Then, he smiled.
Lawrence saw him smile and got worried.
"Congratulations Master Akki, you have finally married her. You can now slowly start with your plan." Lawrence tried to interrupt his mood.
He did not say a thing. Instead, he had remembered his plan. 'I will marry her, make her deeply fall in love with me, get information about her mother and dump her! This way, I can get a harder revenge!'
Lawrence could sense what he was thinking so he talked. "Can you really dump her, Master Akki? She is innocent. She is not her mother." He looked at his eyes on the front mirror.
"And did her mother has pity the son who was left alone after she took the lives of his parents?" Akki begun to inflame. "He is also innocent Lawrence!" He heavily punched the car seat.
Lawrence got frightened upon sensing Akki's rising anger. He wanted to say something to calm him but he could not think of anything to calm him when he's like this. He looked straight on the road and thought of bringing Zowie's name in the moment.
"I am sorry for intruding Master Akki. I will directly drive you to your third house. Mrs. Araneta must be waiting for you now." He said while glancing at the mirror to observe Akki's mood. He got terrified when their eyes met on the mirror.
Lawrence saw Akki's dead eyes. And he had already interpreted these eyes as the eyes who hide anger, hatred and pain. It was apathetically murderous.
"Bring me to Dark Haven." Akki calmly ordered.
Akki is scary when he yells and shouts but when he is calm and silent, he is deadly.
He was fourteen when he embraced hatred and violence seeing his father's bloody corpse. It was his birthday. He was in his father's secret office when he heard a commotion outside. And as he went out, he saw a woman with blood on her hands while holding his father. He was dumbfounded and saw the culprit immediately ran away. His mother could not take the loss so she committed suicide a day after his fathers' death. She hanged herself and he was the one who saw her first. He was crying while holding her feet up, trying to help her out, to save her.
After a year, he begged his father's father for a training so he was sent out for a hard in-house training. He was also helped out by his father's closest comrades get him into Hellhound Academy where he met Lawrence. It was a secret and exclusive academy known for high-end training for physical and mind battle including emotional state.
At 20, he decided to stand on his own, rebuilding his father's lost connections and spreading his power across the country. He realized his revenge was hopeless when he got the information that the woman went abroad without a specific country or place to trace out.
With his frustrations, he put up a place he called Dark Haven where he can take out his inner devil. It was a combat facility which one can tell as an unsafe place but for him it is.
"Make a call at the house and let her know that I can't be with her for lunch." Akki ordered as soon as they arrived at the place. "And call Red, tell him I need him here." Before Lawrence could talk, Akki immediately went inside the facility.
"This is going to be a very dangerous time for you people. I pity you." Lawrence said to himself while referring to the people inside the facility. He looked around and noticed that it was dark. "The atmosphere must be his twin brother!" He chuckled.
Poor them! They will be devoured by a beast.
***
Zowie was so bored inside the room. She wanted to sneak out and find something helpful to her situation but she couldn't. She was stuck in there.
"Ah! Oh!" She was startled upon a thunder which was followed by a lightning.
'It's still morning yet you are not in a good mood huh! And you wanted me to join you?' She was pissed of when suddenly it thundered again. The weather seemed to answer her thoughts.
"Sh*t!" She was again startled.
"You scare the hell out of me!" She yelled. She had totally lost her temper when a knock from the door added. And she was startled again for the third time. "What the!"
"Young Miss, you have a call from Master Lawrence." A woman voiced out.
"Young Miss! Young Miss! I am not young anymore!" She muttered like a child. The woman's knock was indeed a bad timing for her. She deeply sighed. "Come in please."
The woman in her thirty's gave her the phone.
"Thank you, kindly wait outside." Zowie tried to give her a smile. She felt guilty in taking her mood to the innocent woman. Besides, she must give a good impression to gain respect and trust.
The woman smiled and went out of the room.
Then, she calmed herself before answering the phone.
"Yes, Mr. Lawrence. How can I help you?" Zowie uttered.
"Ms. Zowie.. I mean Mistress Zowie, Master Akki wanted to say that he is sorry because he can't be with you for lunch." Lawrence tried to be apologetic in talking to her.
Zowie was impressed that Lawrence had already knew it and he really knew how to address her accordingly. 'This is why, Akki really trusted you, huh.'
She did not care for the lunch. She just felt unimportant since that he was already missing not much longer when they got married.
"If he's really sorry he should be the one calling his wife and not ordered someone to call me for him!" She sounded annoyed.
Lawrence nodded, agreeing to what she said but he realized he will be in trouble if he will not give a reasonable answer. "I am sorry Mistress, Master Akki had an emergency. It was so urgent that he even didn't able to say to me the whole matter." He tried to calm down.
"Then, I will not eat for lunch! Besides I also have an urgent matter to talk to him too." Zowie pretended to be mad. Then ended the call right away. Her lips flashed a mischievous smile. 'He is busy on our wedding day while I am bored out here! That's unfair! Let's see what you are going to do now Akki!'
Lawrence was sweating, he felt hopeless. 'I will be a dead meat now! Why am I in this situation? I am going to be sandwiched between these two! Huh!' He exhaled a deep sigh thinking that he had no choice now but to face Akki.
***
Lawrence was welcomed with wounded men in the hall as he went inside the Dark Haven Facility. He suddenly had goose bumps all over his body.
'I am so dead.' He hopelessly said to himself within.
Then he saw Red helping out a deeply wounded man.
He drunk his own saliva upon seeing how horrible was the man's condition. But he had no choice, if he will not tell him now, the mistress will starve herself and Akki will not be happy with that. And if he will bother him now, he will have to fight him.
'If marriage will be this bothersome, then I don't think I will see myself getting married.' He disturbingly thought.
He composed himself and asked Red. "Where is he?"
"He is in the ring." He replied worriedly.
Lawrence unmindfully turned back. ' The ring! Why does it has to be the ring? He's very good in there! Goodbye self!' He was crying from within.
"Wait! Lawrence! You know you should not bother him, right?" Red tried to warn him.
But Lawrence went on and did not care to what Red had said.
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