"This is my fault. I protected her so much that she became a very naive person. I hope you can reconsider that Anya is very young, I'm sure she will grow up over timeAiden, your wife is very young. Give her some time to develop. You can't be too controlling. You also have to respect her. Anya is your wife, not your daughter. Do you understand?"

"No, you didn't do anything wrong. You have educated and raised Anya very well. I will try to understand and communicate with her more. I will try to consider Anya's feelings so that she can trust me," on the way home, Aiden had thought all this carefully. Listening to Diana's explanation, he felt that he was also guilty of hiding everything from Anya.

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He didn't want to make Anya scared and worried. But the more he tried to cover it all up, the more she's distrustful of him.

Anya was so innocent like a paper without the slightest stain. Aiden loved her for her innocence, but he just realized that what he had been doing was wrong.

Diana nodded happily at Aiden's words. "Talk to her. She has been waiting for you since earlier. I hope you can explain to her patiently. And remember, Anya is pregnant so her emotions are not stable,"

Aiden nodded. Then, he went upstairs and knocked on the door of his room. "Anya, I've come home,"

Anya was sitting on the sofa beside the window. She had been waiting for Aiden to return since morning. She had seen Aiden's car enter the yard of the house for quite a while, but Aiden was only knocking on the door now.

"The door is not locked," Anya answered from inside.

Aiden opened the door to their room and saw Anya's tiny body leaning on the sofa. "Are you waiting for me?"

"Hmm..." Anya nodded without saying anything else.

"If there is anything you want to ask, just ask. I will answer all of them," Aiden sat beside Anya and held her hand gently.

"You met Natali last night, but you didn't do it, right?" Anya lifted her face and looked at Aiden's face, trying to analyze the expression on her husband's face.

Aiden met the gaze of the woman in front of him. His little wife looked so exhausted that she couldn't rest in peace thinking about it.

Anya looked even smaller in Aiden's eyes, making Aiden really want to protect her.

"That woman wants to harm our child. Even though I was very angry, I didn't do anything for our child's sake. I don't want to get my hands dirty. After getting evidence of her crimes, I drove her back to the hospital," Aiden explained patiently.

Anya knew that her husband did not like to be questioned. He was a man with high self-esteem and was very confident in all of his decisions. But for his wife's sake, Aiden didn't mind having to explain everything so that Anya could feel calmer ...

"Aiden, I know you will never do something this cruel," Anya pulled her hand from Aiden's grasp and wrapped it around her husband's neck tightly.

"Before, Natali tried to harm you and I made her suffer. But this time, she tried to kill our child. It's tantamount to premeditated murder. She had to pay for her actions so I immediately reported her and submitted all evidence of her crimes to the police. She will not be able to escape her punishment this time."

Aiden didn't tell Anya that Natali almost ran away. Luckily, Aiden was one step faster…

Deny gave a large amount of money to Natali so that his daughter could escape abroad. He even prepared a new identity for her.

Maybe, when Natali caused this incident sooner, Deny would've already prepared a way out for her daughter.

He knew that Raka did not love Natali and Natali would never be happy in the Mahendra family.

Aiden knew that all parents loved their children so much and always thought what's best for them under any circumstances. Just like when Deny was sick, he would still think about Natali's condition and find a way how his daughter could survive.

But Aiden did not expect that Deny's love for Natali would turn out this big. He did not think that Deny sided with Natali and did not care about Anya at all.

Actually, Natali could have lived happily with the love of her parents. Both of her parents had abundant wealth. She could become the daughter-in-law of the Mahendra family and forget Anya's presence in her life.

If only Natali had decided to do that, maybe she could get whatever she wanted.

But the jealousy inside her was so great that she didn't want to let Anya live in peace. She really wanted to destroy Anya's life.

A woman like Natali didn't deserve sympathy…

This was all because of her own act…

However, the question that still stuck in everyone's heart was, who actually did all this to Natali?

"I don't know who did this to Natali. But when I saw the news, I knew that she was in a horrible condition," Anya buried her face in Aiden's arms.

"You don't need to think about it. You don't have to care about Natali's fate," Aiden pulled Anya from the sofa and invited her to come down. "Let's eat."

"I was very hungry and couldn't walk," Anya's face blushed when she said this. She was really limp from thinking about all this incident.

Aiden took a deep breath and immediately picked up his wife like a princess. "No matter what, please take care of your health. Punishing yourself like this is the most stupid way of sulking. Do you understand?"

"I'm not stupid..." Anya muttered, pouting her lips.

Aiden immediately kissed Anya's lips softly and chuckled. "Among all the people in this family, you are the most stupid,"

Anya could only frown and could not reply to her husband's words.

She immediately looked for other ways to defeat Aiden. "I did it to punish you. I starved your wife and child,"

"You are very cruel. Okay, you win," Aiden kissed Anya's lips once again. "I'm really depressed seeing you like this. Promise me, don't ever do like this again next time,"

Anya hugged Aiden's neck and nodded obediently in his arms, like a small cat that had stopped causing trouble.

Diana and Hana saw the two of them descending from upstairs together. Smiles crossed the faces of the two middle-aged women. They immediately busied themselves and pretended they didn't see anything.

After Anya sat down at the dining table, Hana immediately brought her a warm soup. Since Anya's stomach was empty since morning, Hana gave her the soup first so her stomach wouldn't be shocked by the heavy food.

Diana immediately advised Anya as soon as her daughter looked much calmer. "Anya, listen carefully to mother. No matter what happens, you can't be childish like this again and starve yourself. Aiden loves you so much that he did everything for you so you don't have to worry. If you really want to know what he did with why he did it, you can ask him. But you can't sulk and refuse to eat like this anymore,"

Anya could only sit quietly and lower her head, like a child being advised when she made a mistake. She glanced at Aiden and saw that her husband was silent.

"I won't do it again," she said in a weak voice.

Aiden reached out his hand to stroke Anya's head. "Next time, I'll tell you everything,"

"I also want to know all about you," Anya said, still in a sad tone.

Aiden nodded and agreed. He would also learn to communicate more with Anya so that they wouldn't have any misunderstanding again.

Diana nodded with satisfaction when she saw her daughter and son-in-law. "Alright, let's eat."

Initially, she had a bit of objection to the age difference between Anya and Aiden, who were far apart. But after seeing Aiden's love for her daughter, Diana felt very relieved.

True love should not be limited by age or status. As they said, age was just a number.

Being able to marry someone we love is absolute happiness. Especially if that person also loves us back.

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After lunch, Aiden drove Anya to the hospital for a rescheduled examination. This time, Diana and Hana did not come with them.

On the way, Aiden told stories while holding Anya's hand. "Yesterday, my father suddenly fainted in the park because he was scared when he saw a snake,"

"Snake? How come there are snakes in the garden of the house? Didn't the gardeners clean it every day?" Anya knew that there were many servants and craftsmen in the Atmajaya family house to take care of everything.

"My father was bitten by a poisonous snake as a child and almost died. That's why he has trauma to all kinds of snakes. Even though it's not a poisonous snake, he will still be terrified when he sees it," said Aiden.

"Many people are cleaning the garden every day. They took care of the garden and made sure there weren't any snakes there. Just as I was about to run a pregnancy check, your father suddenly saw a snake and fainted. Do you think this is a coincidence?" Anya muttered.

"Someone did it all on purpose. They wanted to keep me away from you so they could harm you," Aiden said in his deep voice. His eyes were deep as if he was carefully contemplating something.

"You met Natali last night. Did you ask her who told her about the scheduled examination?" Anya asked.