The Billionaire's Mistake

Chapter 73

MISTAKE 73

Chapter 73: A much-needed talk

"Did they bully you, baby?" he began tentatively, breaking the quiet between them. "If they did, then you should definitely go. I will have you walk in like a star. Fifty bodyguards, eighty road clearers."

His words almost made her spit out her food.

"Road clearers?" she asked.

"They pat the crowd like the red sea for you," he said.

"Why would I want that?" Anya chuckled.

"For effect." He shrugged.

"I will look like a clown."

"You will look like a star. So, did they bully you?" he asked.

Anya shrugged, her expression unreadable. "Not really. I was just... ignored."

"Ignored?"

"They behaved as though I did not exist."

Daniel's heart clenched at her words, a pang of sympathy sweeping through him.

"Why?" he asked.

"I was a busy body. They would play pranks on people regularly. One time they took a prank too far and almost killed someone. No one was supposed to tell a teacher, but I told a teacher to call the police.

The firefighters came and got the girl out of the building before she ran out of oxygen. She survived, but she was in a coma for a few months. Her family withdrew her from school, and the students involved were reprimanded. Since then, they all agreed to pretend I don't exist."

could erase the years of loneliness and isolation she had endured, to shield her

bullying?" he said coldly, squeezing her hand. "They ignored you

let

met his gaze, a small smile tugging at

He was behaving unusually. He would call her baby at any

go into deep thought. It

sun had dipped below the horizon by the time Daniel and Anya made their way home, the sky painted in hues of purple and pink as dusk settled over the quiet

on Daniel hung over them like a

couldn't help but feel a sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming inseparable as the days grew. It could

that she had opened her heart up to Wendy fussing over Anya,

23. A much-needed

her to their bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender and vanilla enveloping

all his time there, only

took off her jewelry,

we talk?"

he started a

Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as they sat in silence for a moment, gathering their

began slowly, choosing his

future.

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slightly, suspicion creeping into her expression. "What about our

before speaking, "I think it's time for

Her mind was racing as she tried to process his words. "Move? But why?" Of all the things she had thought he would say, this was at the bottom of the list. For some reason, she had never really considered moving out of the family

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though she had

her the most, refused to have anything to do with her, and put her in a state of

is the house you left me to stay in a lone day and

for a bit before he opened and stared at her, his gaze searching

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