The Billionaire's Mistake

MISTAKE 44

Chapter 44: Drawing a Line Between Them

"Why are you here?" Daniel asked, "I am not working today. So, whatever it is, keep it till I am ready." His cold eyes pierced through Selene's, attempting to see into her soul.

"I wanted to talk to you about something," she said, glancing at James and Wendy, who had already taken a seat. It was clear that she was hoping to speak with him privately. But Daniel was not someone to give people a face, so he ignored her gesture and nodded to her.

"Go ahead," he urged her, and she looked around.

"I am hoping to speak to you privately," she could not help but say. She would rather die than say why she had come while his mother was there. Not too long ago, she had fallen into the old woman's trap and said she was not dating Daniel. If she opened her mouth this moment to ask him out, she would be slapping herself in the face.

Daniel did not have the energy for her nonsense, but he wanted to get rid of her, so he gestured towards the living room they had just left, and they both moved there.

Now alone with him, Selene became nervous. She looked up to meet his eyes, which held no emotion, and started to lose her confidence.

"Are you going to talk? Don't waste my time," he said, when he was her hesitating. Selene was taken back by his tone.

"I heard that you got divorced," she said, and he frowned.

seems people have nothing better to talk about,"

to go out this weekend. I know you were married all this

come in? Are you addicted to being a mistress?" Daniel asked, and blood drained from her face. She could

married anymore," she

waiting all this while for my wife to leave?" Daniel was

not," she started to

the initiative to hold my hand. How many photos did reporters take of this scene? Was it to pressure my wife to leave or to embarrass her till she had nowhere

you make me sound like some scheming woman?" she

frame Anya?" he asked, "And the rumors in the press: would the tabloids that have written so much about you believe you are innocent if I said that you hurried over to ask me out the moment my wife left? Would they

Daniel asked.

bother to mention that she was

he wanted to. He would not even bat

they still thought he did not know. "So, you know you only have a work relationship with me, yet you parade around as thought you are my mistress," he said, taking a step closer. "It can't be that you

for him. What was she to him? "You are testing my patience, Selene. I

sighed at the words that

insect from those gossip magazines." Daniel, who had just taken a seat, felt as though his mother had ripped open another wound. He placed his

Daniel's heart leaped when he heard the words, Lincoln City. His Anya was there. But when he thought about how he did not have the face to see her again,

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