The Billionaire's Promise
Chapter 240: The Powerful Who Was Enslaved

Chapter 240: The Powerful Who Was Enslaved

After Erik posted, he put his cell phone on silent mode and closed his eyes. But he could not sleep so he sat down and studied his wife lying peacefully beside him. He shifted his gaze to the bassinet on his right.

His little princess was sleeping like an angel.

He felt his cell phone vibrate so he took it out of his pocket. There were a lot of unread messages on his social media account and on the group chat with his friends.

Marlon: "Aryana has already given birth? Damn! Your daughter is cute."

Franco: "Where is Arayana? Why don’t you have a picture of her?"

Alex: "Damn It. I am envious of you buddy. I’d like to have a child too."

Franco: "Come on! Show us, Aryana."

Alex: "Agree with Franco. Could you show us the mother? Otherwise, we will think that you have kept a mistress."

Erik’s smirked as he read the messages from his friends. He browsed his gallery and decided to share their first family picture. Aryana wasn’t wearing her contact lens so the photo showed her hazel eyes that were brimming with happiness as she gazed lovingly into the camera. Her fatigue was noticeable but it did not hide her beauty.

Alex: "Is that Aryana? What happened to her hair?"

Franco: "Did you forget she met an accident? She lost her memory so it means that she must have an injury on her head."

Alex: "The baby looks like Aryana. When are you bringing them home Erik?"

Franco: "Can you tell that she looks like Aryana? How come I cannot tell? Don’t newborns look the same?"

Alex: "Look at the color of her eyes. It is the same as her mother’s."

Franco: "Hey, Erik! Brother, why are you neglecting us? Say something."

Erik: "I am going to sleep."

Alex: "Marlon, why are you so silent?"

Alex waited for some time but nobody replied.

Alex: "Hey where is everyone? Are you all going to sleep? Hey!"

At the ward, Erik placed his cell phone on the bedside table and tried to close his eyes. He was finally sleepy and succumbed to a dreamless sleep.

When the light seeped through the window of the ward, Aryana woke up. She was aching all over. She felt that a truck ran over her. She also felt that her breasts were slightly engorged.

She looked to her right and she stiffened when she saw a man sleeping beside her. She closed her eyes and opened them once again. The man was still there.

She reached out and touched his face with her trembling hands. She could feel the heat from his body. It wasn’t a dream.

Yesterday, because of the pain she thought that she was hallucinating and had mistaken Ken for Erik.

A sudden realization hit her. Aryana quickly sat up.

Erik felt movement beside him and he opened his eyes. It was already bright outside. His eyes darted to the clock at the wall. it was already 6:30 a m. Then his gaze shifted to the woman who was sitting beside him.

Aryana was in a daze. Then tears started rolling from her eyes.

"Erik, you are really here! It is not a dream." Aryana hugged her knees and started sobbing.

Erik hastily sat down and embraced her tightly.

"Did you regain your memories? Do you already remember me?" Erik’s voice croaked with so much emotion.

"I think I regained my memory when I was at the last stages of my labor." Aryana pushed Erik away. She wanted to gaze at his face. She had missed him so much.

"You... you pretended to be Ken?" Arayana looked at Erik with wide eyes.

"I have no choice, Yana. I think I am triggering you to remember your past. The doctor said that you cannot be triggered anymore as the last time, you showed signs of miscarriage."

Erik reached out and held Aryana’s hand. He placed it over his own and intertwined their fingers.

"I do not want to lose you again and I want to experience your pregnancy without posing any risk to you, so I asked Grandpa to be your bodyguard."

"Grandpa! Oh, yes. It was Grandpa who saved me. It is the hand of faith, Erik. Who would believe that I found my grandfather when I was on the brink of death."

Erik’s face turned bleak and it was witnessed by Aryana.

"I am sorry, Yana. I wasn’t there for you. I failed you. I thought... I thought.." Erike burrowed his head on Aryana’s neck. He could not bring himself to say that at one point in time, he also thought that Aryana died.

"It is all in the past, Erik. Nobody thought that I would be kidnapped and met an accident." After finishing her sentence, she stiffened when she remembered her ordeal during the kidnapping and the events the day before her accident.

"I had dealt with the kidnappers or rather nature dealt with them. Everyone actually died when the tornado struck."

"How about the yacht? The mastermind should be in the yacht."

"It was also destroyed by the tornado."

Erik shifted on the bed. He supported Aryana before letting her head rest on his chest.

"The kidnappers were hired by the syndicate that tried to auction you."

Aryana gasped. "It is them? Then it is a blessing in disguise that I lost my memory and landed on Grandpa’s island." She turned to Erik with a troubled look.

"Did they make things difficult for you?" Aryana was worried on behalf of Erik.

"No. I destroyed them. They no longer exist in the Central District."

Arayna looked at Erik in disbelief. She knew that her husband was powerful, but she did not know that he was that powerful.

"I thought you died." Erik caressed her short hair. "So, I made them pay."

"Wow! I didn’t know that my husband is very powerful." Aryana blurted out happily.

Erik was about to answer her when the little princess on the bassinet cried.

Aryana moved away from Erik. She wanted to stand despite the discomfort she felt in her lower body. But before she can leave the bed, Erik has already lifted their little princess from the bassinet.

"I think she is hungry." Erik went to the small table where the baby formula was placed. The feeding bottle was already filled with 60ml of distilled water. All he needed to do was to add two scoops of the milk powder and shake it. He did that with one hand while still holding baby Erika on the other hand.

Aryana who was seated on the edge of the bed had a silly grin on her face. Her powerful husband who had destroyed a notorious syndicate was subdued by a bundle in a swadling cloth.

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