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 the pain

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

not let them

met his gaze, a small smile tugging

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

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

by the time Daniel and Anya made their way home, the sky painted in hues

on Daniel hung over them like a hovering cloud as they approached the Shaw Family

of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming

parents first, with that she had opened her heart up to Wendy fussing over Anya, before they made

23. A much-needed

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

all his time there,

While Anya took

we talk?"

her brow, a flicker of suspicion crossing her features. Every time he started a sentence this way, she knew something was about to happen.

space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as

slowly, choosing his words carefully. "About

future.

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narrowed slightly, suspicion creeping into her expression. "What

her for a while before speaking, "I think it's time for us

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.

A much-needed

ached at his words. He sounded as though she had said

the place where he ignored her the most, refused to have anything to do with her, and put her in a state of utter depression. When she thought of that house, she could

stay in a lone day and night and even ignored me when I crawled on

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

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