Chapter 230 - Nightmare

After dinner, they gathered in the family room on the first floor and got ready to watch Lauriel check Vega's condition. Inwardly, everyone really hoped that Vega would recover her memory completely and she would return to her old self.

"Based on my findings, Vega was brainwashed with high-level hypnosis and also some drugs to affect her memory. So, the first thing we need to do is make treat her brain and make it healthy again, so that it can awaken all the pent-up memories. Tomorrow, I will play so many videos that will help her brain recollect her old memories," explained Lauriel.

"Do you have all the materials you need?" asked Elios.

"Yes. You don't have to worry."

Lauriel brought a small bowl filled with green liquid from the table and handed it to Vega.

"What is this, Grandpa Rory?" asked Vega.

"This is medicine to improve cell regeneration on your body and brain. Tomorrow we will get ready for treatment. We will take out all the false memories that were planted in your mind and bring out all the hidden original memories," said Lauriel. Before Vega asked, he had added. "I know you want to remember the 5 years you lived as Fae Muller, because you loved your husband. You don't have to worry. You won't lose any more memory."

"Thank you ..." muttered Vega. 

That was her main concern. If her memory returned as Vega Linden until she was kidnapped, but then she forgot what happened afterward .. then she would lose her memory for nearly six years, and she didn't want to be an adult woman who only had memories of a teenager.

Obediently, Vega then drank Lauriel's potion and tried to finish it as fast as possible. It was very bitter, but she tried not to spit it out.

"You will feel hot and sweaty, and all the cells in your body would go through a regeneration process. This will take all night. You can sleep and rest now," said Lauriel. 

Vega nodded. "I've started to feel the heat."

"That's good. That means the medicine is working."

Aleksis immediately went to Vega's side and pulled the girl's head into her lap. "Here, if you're sleepy, you can sleep on my lap."

Vega looked at her mother with a pair of teary eyes.

Ahh ... so, this is how it feels to have a mother.

She remembered the hard times when she was alone and lonely. Vega couldn't even share her sadness with anyone when she was down after she was separated from Ren, or when she lost both fetuses in her womb.

"Sshh ... don't be sad, your mother is here, Baby," said Aleksis in a voice filled with emotion. She hugged her daughter very tightly. "Mom will always take care of you ..."

Vega understood that her mother meant what she said. After she got pregnant.. she could understand a mother's heart. How she was willing to sacrifice anything for her children.

Surely, that was what Aleksis was feeling about her now. She knew her mother would do anything for her.

Unknowingly, Vega's tears flowed profusely, and she hugged her mother tightly in return. 

She still hadn't finished mourning the death of her children, and now the feeling of grief was hitting Vega's soul again. If Amelia hadn't killed her children, she would soon give birth to them to this world.

Her family did not understand why that girl was crying so much for no apparent reason. Nicolae asked his father silently if his medicine would have such side effects, but Lauriel shook his head.

He also did not understand why Vega was crying so despondently all of a sudden. He suspected that something horrible must have happened that made her this sad.

Lauriel signaled for them all not to discuss anything so that Vega wouldn't become even sadder. He was sure that, at the right time, Vega would open up and tell them what really happened.

Right now, their priority was her health and restoring her memory.

Finally, they let Vega cry as much as she wanted and don't try to ask questions. Aleksis stroked her daughter's hair affectionately and waited until Vega's crying subsided, and her tears dried up.

"Mother and Father really love you ..." she whispered over and over. "We're so happy you're home."

Vega finally fell asleep after crying for a long time. Her father carried her to her bedroom. Elios lay down his daughter in her comfortable bed.

"I want to sleep here with Vega," said Aleksis as Elios draped a blanket over his daughter's body. His wife added, "I want to make sure she doesn't have nightmares or needs anything."

Elios nodded. "Then, I will sleep here too."

He then returned to the living room and told his family that he and Aleksis would accompany Vega in her room.

"That's a good idea. Tomorrow morning we'll see how she is," said Lauriel.

After Elios and Aleksis went to Vega's room, Lauriel and the others decided to have a few drinks and brainstorm before calling it a night and rest.

***

"I know he doesn't love me, Amelia ... I know that .. I know he will never love me because he can't fall in love ..." Fee muttered slowly. "That's why I went away ..."

"Amelia ... I'm sorry for coming to this event. I was invited by my boss from RMI. I have absolutely no intention of seducing Ren. He and I have even talked about our divorce. You can have him. I will go. Please .. let me go. "

"Amelia .. don't ..." Fee raised her hands as if trying to calm someone down. She sounded terrified. "Please .. I'll go and you'll never see me again ..."

Her voice turned into a pleading whisper. 

"Amelia ... please .. don't kill my children ..." Vega pleaded with tears in his eyes. "I promise to leave Ren. I'll go away from him."

"Aaaaaahhh ..... !!!" Vega's hysterical screams in his sleep made Aleksis and Elios tears flow so profusely.

They both stood beside Vega's bed, holding hands to comfort each other, as they listened to their daughter crying in her sleep as she had a horrible nightmare.