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."

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

not bullying?" he said coldly, squeezing her hand. "They ignored you

let

his gaze, a small

angry on her behalf. For some reason, she felt her heart sing. He was behaving unusually. He would call her baby

Daniel seemed to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but

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

Daniel hung over them

sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming inseparable as the days grew. It could even

immensely. They greeted their parents first, with that she had opened her heart up to Wendy fussing over Anya, before

23. A much-needed

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

as Daniel spent all his

While Anya took off

we talk?" he

started a sentence

to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as they sat in silence for

thinking," Daniel began slowly, choosing his words carefully. "About us and

future.

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

before speaking, "I think it's

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 mansion.

A

at his words. He sounded as though she had said she hated him. "That's not

not hold love for his house? It was the place where he ignored her the most, refused to have anything to do with her, and put her in a state of utter

above a whisper. "That is the house you left me to stay in a lone day and night and even ignored me when I crawled on the living room

his throat; his eyes squeezed shut for a bit before he opened and stared at her, his gaze searching hers. "You are right. I

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