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."

endured, to shield her from

is that not bullying?" he said coldly, squeezing her hand.

not let them

met his gaze, a small smile

behaving unusually. He would call her baby at any moment

into deep thought. It was unsure what

the time Daniel and Anya made their way home, the sky painted in hues of purple and pink as dusk settled over

on Daniel hung over them like a hovering

wash over him. He and Anya

her heart up to Wendy fussing over Anya, before they made their

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scent of lavender

theirs, as Daniel spent all his time there, only

take Anya back home. While Anya took off her jewelry, Daniel turned to Anya,

we talk?"

crossing her features. Every time he started

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

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

future.

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

for a while before speaking,

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 mansion. Daniel reached for her hand, squeezing it gently. "You don't want to move back

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sounded as though she had said

was she to explain to him that she did 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

barely 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 floor in pain from my mother's

squeezed shut for a bit before he opened and stared at her,

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