Same as the Former
CHAPTER 42

They continued to have dinner together, Ayesha told me a lot about herself. Even Audrey and the Emperor only found out that Ayesha was actually good friends with her three children while in school.

"So you're the daughter of the Wibisana family?" Ask Emperor.

"Yes, Uncle." Ayesha.

"I see, you studied business in America and only came back two years ago." Emperor Saying.

Ayesha smiled, while Kevin and Kenzo sat at each other and each of them rubbed his temples.

"Unlike that, Uncle. The news about me studying business in America is just a transfer of the scandal I used to do."

"Scandal?" The Emperor asked convincingly. He did not know anything despite knowing the Wibisana family. The Emperor knew that his only daughter was studying business in uncle sam's country.

Ayesha took a deep breath and exhaled violently, then Ayesha ventured to start telling a story.

"I went to college here, and when I walked two years or in the fourth semester, I married a man that Daddy disliked and chose to take the Wibisana surname out of my name. The real gossip spread and made my Mommy sick so that she had to be treated in America and my parents shifted the issue by making a story if I was studying business in America." Ayesha.

"You're married, Ay?" Tanya Keysha doesn't believe it.

Keysha, the Emperor and Audrey are quite surprised by Ayesha's statement except for Kenzo and Kevin who can only massage her temples.

Ayesha looked at Keysha's face on the other side of her desk. Ayesha nodded, "I've been married and divorced, Key." He said as if without burden as if he felt relieved after saying that.

I don't know what Kevin's family will do, Ayesha will take it with her chest.

Audrey stood up from her seat, "Ayesha, can we talk together?" Audrey asked seriously.

Kevin stood up from his seat and looked at his mother. "Ma...." Say it by welding.

"Kev, Mama wants to talk to Ayesha first."

"Kevin's coming, Ma.. Ayesha's business is Kevin's business too." Kevin said he was trying to protect.

Ayesha stood up from her seat. "Kev, remember our agreement. You can't fight your parents."

Kevin shook his head. "Ay, I can't."

Audrey sees Kevin's loving gaze for Ayesha, believing her son loves Ayesha very much.

"Give me some time to talk to your mama, Kev. Please." Pinta Ayesha really.

Kenzo approaches Kevin and Ayesha. "Let Mama talk to Ayesha first, Kev." Kenzo said hold Kevin.

"Come on Ayesha." Take Audrey to the Emperor's office, her husband.

Audrey and Ayesha sat together on the sofa. They were alone and spoke four eyes.

"Do you love my son?" Audrey asked with her gentle gaze as she clasped Ayesha's hands together.

"I don't know, Aunty." Answer Ayesha.

"Yield..." Call Ayesha and Audrey looks back at Ayesha. "It's okay if Aunty doesn't allow Kevin to have love with me. But I beg Aunty, help me get Kevin to stop looking for me, stop calling me." Pinta Ayesha's.

"You're limiting yourself?" Ask Audrey.

Ayesha shook her head, "I just want to protect my own heart, Aunty. I don't want to fall too deep, I've been hurt and the pain is still vividly remembered."

Audrey sees a streak of sadness on Ayesha's face, whether the wound is what Ayesha experienced so that makes Ayesha traumatized to establish love and open her heart again.

"Ayesha, do you and your ex-husband have children?" Audrey hesitated.

Ayesha smiled miris. "Five years of marriage, I so wanted a child from my ex-husband. But when I have it in my womb, destiny is not on my side. My ex-husband was proven to have impregnated another woman and decided to marry her when I was also just pregnant. Even my in-laws tortured me with various kinds of homework, told me to cook and prepare a guest room that turned out to be prepared for my ex-husband's affair when my condition was very weak, and my sister-in-law deliberately made me fall and then I miscarried." Ayesha's story makes Audrey smother her own mouth.

Audrey is so shocked by what Ayesha experienced in her marriage. How can a daughter from a distinguished family be treated arbitrarily by the family of her ex-husband.

"Therefore, Aunty. I'm really fine if Aunty and Uncle reject me. I've prepared myself mentally, I'm self-conscious if I'm just a widow who doesn't deserve Kevin. I know very well that parents want what's best for their children, as well as Aunty." Say Ayesha as loud as possible.

"I promise, I'll stay away from Kevin, but please help me too Aunty, so Kevin can accept this decision." Pinta Ayesha's.

"What do you mean?" Ask Audrey.

"The decision if Aunty can't accept me." Answer Ayesha.

Audrey sighed. Audrey just found out that Ayesha has prepared her mentality so far.

"Ayesha's..." Call Audrey softly. "What reason do you think makes me not to accept you?" Ask Audrey.

"Because of my widowed status. Surely all parents want their children to marry good women."

"Is the widow no good?" Ask Audrey again.

"The widow is a disgrace, everyone looks down on the status of a widow who is divorced from her husband."

Audrey held Ayesha's hand again. "No one wants to fail in a household. If it must fail, maybe God has prepared another way for a better life. Stop your thinking like that. A widow is even better than a woman who is still single but turns out to often change men. Even I feel like Kevin doesn't deserve you because Kevin used to be a womanizer and has relationships with a lot of women." Audrey said at length. "So Ayesha, Mama approves of your relationship with Kevin, open your heart to Kevin. Mama just saw Kevin staring at a woman with love, don't doubt Kevin because Mama will guarantee it if Kevin really loves you." Audrey said again and this time Audrey called herself Mama for Ayesha.

"Yield...."

"Call Mama, Ayesha. Mama Kevin means your Mama too. Mama accepts you, Mama doesn't care about your status. Mama just asked to take care of your household with Kevin, remove your trauma and open your heart to Kevin, live happily with him."

Ayesha could not hold back her tears, she did not expect that there would still be a mother-in-law with an angel like Audrey.

"Thank you, Ma.." Ayesha hugged Audrey and Audrey returned the hug.

Meanwhile, Kevin was walking back and forth unsettled, he felt afraid if the mother hurt Ayesha. For whatever sake Kevin will fight for his love for Ayesha, no matter if his parents oppose him.

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