Hidden Marriage With My Imperfect CEO

Before visiting Anya, Natali had already persuaded Yura to say that this was all her plan. Natali promised to save Yura as long as Anya didn't investigate it further

"Anya, just forget about this problem," said Diana. "Natali did intend to harm you, but she has learned a lesson. If she doesn't sue you, don't sue her. We better give in,"

"Mother, even though I want to give in, will Natali just let me be? She doesn't realize her mistake at all and she will never change," Anya couldn't calm down. She was afraid that Natali had another bad intention.

"Your father called and said he hoped you could forgive her. He will set Natali straight after this," Diana looked embarrassed. As Deny's ex-wife, she still felt sorry for him and didn't have the heart for her ex-husband's current condition. 

"You know your father's condition is not good and Mona was also arrested by the police..." she continued.

"Mother..." Anya was not afraid that Natali intended to harm her because she had Aiden. Aiden would always take care of her. But what about her mother…?

What if Natali hurt her mother…?

Aiden understood Diana's intentions and what Anya was thinking. He stroked Anya's hand gently. "Don't worry. I will tell my people to always protect mom. She will be fine,"

"I'm sure Natali still hasn't given up. I could even see the hatred in her eyes. She will only cause trouble. I'm with Aiden most of the time but mother always goes to the park alone, so I can't stay calm," Anya's eyes turned red. "It's not easy for her to wake up from a coma. I don't want to take risks and lose my mother again,"

"You stupid. The park is not far from the house. Every day, Aiden's servants and bodyguards always accompany me. The price of apples this year seems to be improving. I can not only sell flowers, I also want to sell apples," Diana said with a smile.

"Okay. I will give Natali one more chance. But if she does something, no matter how small it is, I will not forgive her," Anya finally obeyed her mother's words and looked at Aiden. "Tell Nico to pass this to Raka. That way, he can get the opportunity to work with Raka's company. I want to help him,"

"Nico must be very grateful to you," Aiden said with a smile.

Raka received a call from Nico during dinner.

Nico was very good at words and bragging himself. "Raka, I begged my aunt for you. My uncle hated me and threw me out. Finally, he asked my aunt to forget about this problem and said that my aunt did not intend to continue this matter again. Now, you take care of Natali carefully and don't let her die again,"

"Nico, thank you. I'll treat you next time," said Raka.

"My aunt is too kind and gentle so she can't be hard on other people. However, even though she had forgiven Natali, she was still worried. She's afraid that Natali would repeat the same actions and find trouble again. You have to be careful," said Nico.

"I understand. I know what I have to do. Sorry to bother you," Raka sighed with relief. If his future wife were like Anya, he could live happily.

But his fiancée kept making his head dizzy.

After hanging up, Raka looked at his mother's face and saw a gloomy expression. "Mother, let's have dinner!"

"What dinner? How can I have dinner with that woman? You choose, who should return to their room, me or her?" Irena refused to eat at the same table with Natali.

Natali knew that Irena hated her. She rose to her feet and said, "Mother, you eat here. I'll go back to my room,"

Seeing Natali going to her room, Irena immediately returned to the dining table. One of the servants went to the study to call Raka's father.

Rian Mahendra came out of his office and immediately sat down at the dining table. "How is the problem?"

"Yura has changed her confession and is responsible for everything by herself. Nico helped me to persuade Anya so that they didn't escalate the tension," said Raka.

Rian nodded. "Natali indeed has been hurt, but all this suffering is due to her own fault. She couldn't blame anyone. For the good name of the Mahendra Family and the Tedjasukmana Family, it is better if this matter is shut down once for all. Irena, for the time being, you have to keep an eye on Natali and don't let her cause trouble," said Rian.

Hearing this, Irena immediately felt angry. "If she dared to cause trouble again, I would immediately kick her out of this house. Don't you think she deserves all of this? She ran away from our driver and left without notifying,"

Natali was standing in the second floor corridor. She could hear the voices from downstairs clearly.

Her hands were clenched into fists in anger until her nails cut into her palms. The pain she felt kept reminding her that it was Anya who had injured her.

In the past, Irena liked her very much and Raka also slowly accepted her. But she was raped by two disgusting men and dirty now.

Her days at the Mahendra Family were not as fun as they used to be.

She couldn't live in peace. And she would make sure that Anya's life would not be peaceful either.

….

Having decided to forget about the matter, Anya's days became calmer. She could focus her attention on the perfume competition.

This competition was an extremely rare opportunity for her to learn many things.

On the day of the competition, Diana and Aiden accompany Anya to the venue.

Although Esther was one of the judges of the competition, she was only responsible for being the judge in the first round.

The first half was about the smell and material identification.

Diana had lost her sense of smell and Esther couldn't remember the scent because of her accident. But they still loved the perfumery world and had high hopes for Anya.

Anya was born with a keen sense of smell and this first half was a very easy chapter for her.

The participants took turns to analyze a perfume bottle with unknown ingredients.

While smelling the perfume bottle, Anya accidentally saw Keara.

Keara opened a perfume shop right in front of Iris. The shop had been prepared in such a way but was still not open. There was only a sign board that said 'Keara's Perfume' in front of it.

Keara was also participating in this perfume competition, hoping to get the grand prize and also advertise her new shop for free.

Anya's mind drifted for a moment before she finally pulled herself together and focused on this competition.

Anya immediately wrote down all the ingredients and compositions in the perfume and was the first to collect them.

The judges looked at each other with a smile and then nodded, giving Anya the signal that she passed to the second round.

Anya immediately entered the next test stage and found that she had to determine the quality of the spices that had been provided and rank them according to their quality in this second half. Then the participants had to choose three to five spices to make a perfume recipe.

Based on the recipes submitted by the contestants, the judges would evaluate the production, refining process and also consider costs and sales expectations from various factors. All of that became the basis of the assessment that would be performed to the product.

Anya immediately saw the spices provided and thought carefully.

As she was thinking, the bell rang, signaling that the first half of the competition was over. Some participants did not qualify because they failed to write down the composition and ingredients of the perfume properly so they had to get out of this competition.

Keara also made it into the second half.

She glanced at Anya when she learned about the contents of the second round competition. The Pratama family was the king of spices. They could identify spices and determine their quality easily.

Who could be better than her?

Anya was destined to lose!