Hidden Marriage With My Imperfect CEO

Chapter 428 - Part Of My Family

"It's an apology. If the Atmajaya Family accepts the prize, it means we have forgiven the Srijaya Family for today's incident and the relationship between the two families will not be affected," Aiden said.

"Looks like Lisa's escape from this engagement is not a bad thing," Anya replied with a smile.

Aiden saw the box from afar. "I think it's jewelry,"

"Lisa is Auntie Indah's niece. She wanted to give the gift to her only niece on the day of her engagement. The jewelry must be very valuable. Too bad Lisa ran away. Tara's really lucky to get it," Anya said happily as if she had received the prize.

"Hmm…" Aiden nodded. "Lisa can be with the man she loves. Nico could also be engaged to Tara at last. Apart from that, Tara also got a jewelry as a present,"

After that, Aiden turned and smiled at his wife. "I will give you a gift of jewelry for your birthday,"

"Do you think I'll be reluctant and refuse?" Anya laughed. "My birthday is on the 19th, are you ready to give me a present?" Anya asked on purpose.

"I've prepared it," Aiden replied mysteriously.

Natali saw Aiden and Anya talking and laughed from a distance. Meanwhile, Raka was cold towards her and ignored her. This annoyed her even more.

At the end of this engagement party, Ivan and Nico were responsible for staying until the end, waiting for the guests to come home. Meanwhile, Bima went home first to rest because of his old age.

Since she was pregnant, Anya was allowed to go home first together with Aiden. Aiden wrapped his wife's body in a long jacket and walked out of the hotel, hugging her shoulders.

Aiden's guard saw them coming so he immediately picked them up at the lobby's door.

As she was about to get into the car, Anya saw Natali in Keara's car.

"Aiden..." Anya immediately reminded her husband.

"I know. Don't pay attention to them," said Aiden.

"Two people who don't like me are together. I'm sure they must be discussing how to harm me next," said Anya.

Aiden stroked his wife's head gently. "It turns out you are not that stupid,"

"I'm not stupid," Anya muttered. "I have to be more careful next time," once in the car, Anya shared her conversation with Natali earlier.

"I feel Natali is giving me a warning."

"Don't be afraid. I'll always be with you," Aiden hugged Anya's body and kissed the top of her head.

Being in Aiden's arms made Anya feel warm and safe. Maybe she was thinking too much about Narali's words.

Did that girl seriously want to fight Aiden? She was nothing compared to her husband. Why should she be afraid?

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The night after the engagement party, Tara and Tirta came back to the Atmajaya Family's house to discuss this matter.

"Tara, excuse us. I couldn't stop Nico so he forced you to get engaged to him. If you don't want to be with Nico, are you willing to wait? I'll find an excuse to cancel your engagement. No one will force you," Bima said, opening the conversation.

Today's situation was arguably a forced engagement. Nico forced Tara to get engaged to him so that the Atmajaya Family wouldn't be embarrassed.

"Tara, you know Nico likes you. He did whatever he wanted today, but his feelings for you are really sincere. I don't know how you feel, but I'm grateful that you didn't turn him down. I also agree with his grandfather. If you don't want to get engaged to Nico, we respect your decision," said Maria.

"Tara, do you want to go home with grandpa?" Tirta asked.

Everyone gave this option to Tara, while Nico didn't want to lose Tara from his side. "You can't go. You are engaged to me. You are Nico Atmajaya's fiancée now," said Nico.

Tara laughed seeing the panic of everyone around her. "I didn't say I wanted to go. Today is November 15th. We can go on a trial period for 3 months until February 14th. If we don't get along, we can part in peace. How about it?"

"No problem," Nico agreed immediately.

"Let's make a letter of agreement and sign it in front of our parents," Tara said seriously.

"I don't want to be under a contract," Nico didn't like complicated things and he didn't want to be bound by a contract.

"If you don't want to sign the agreement, I'll go home with my grandfather right now. After three months, I will immediately issue a statement to cancel our engagement," Tara said firmly.

Nico didn't think Tara would be this bad. "I don't want to. If I sign an agreement like this, where will I put my face?"

"Do you still have a face? Your future fiancée ran away on engagement day. If it weren't for Tara's sacrifice to pretend in front of everyone, you would have cried alone on stage," Bima said irritably.

"Grandfather, this is not my fault. You set me up with Lisa's family. But it turned out that Lisa didn't like me and ran away. what could I do?" Nico pretended to be sad in front of his grandfather.

"Don't you think about the silly things you do? You're too careless and don't care about your reputation. You don't know what outsiders say about you. You don't even have a lover, but you pride yourself and say that you have one that levels that of a soccer player's. Today, you have troubled Tara. You're lucky she wanted to help you. If she wasn't there then what were you going to do?" Bima scolded his favorite grandson.

"Tara, can you tell us the contents of the contract? I will try to persuade Nico to sign it," said Maria.

Tara then returned Maria's bag. She did not take the gift that was in the bag at all. After taking back her own bag, she also gave all the gifts to the Atmajaya Family.

"I can't take all these gifts," although Tara was a money lover, she wasn't a greedy person. She would never take something that did not belong to her.

Then, Tara took out a pen and paper from her bag, and wrote a contract.

When she finished, Nico immediately took it and read it briefly, "I've finished reading it. As long as I sign it, you will still be my fiancée, right?"

Tara nodded.

"Living under the same roof, but in different rooms. Don't make physical contact without the permission of each other. During your stay together, you will do the housework and I will be responsible for paying the daily expenses. As long as we live together, the two of us will not interfere with each other's affairs. That's all?"Nico felt there was nothing wrong with the contract after he finished reading it.

The rules were not difficult to follow.

"Yes, that's all. Sign it if you agree. If you don't agree, I'll go home with my grandfather. We can assume today's engagement didn't happen," Tara said calmly.

"I'll sign it," Nico said. Tara signed her name next to Nico's name. Bima, Tirta and Maria witnessed the signing of the agreement letter.

After that, Nico took a picture of the contract letter as evidence and gave the original to Tara.

"Tara, starting today, you are part of my family. This is your engagement gift from Indah. Save it," said Bima.