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."

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

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

not let them kill

a small smile tugging at her

he was angry on her behalf. For some reason, she felt her heart sing. He was behaving unusually. He would call her baby at any moment and touch her when he felt like it. For some reason, she did not want

seemed to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the mood became unknowingly soft

home, the sky painted in hues of purple and pink as dusk settled over

Anya's dependence on Daniel hung over them like a hovering cloud as they approached

they stepped through the front door, Daniel couldn't help but feel a sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming inseparable as the days grew.

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

A much-needed

the familiar scent of

spent all his time there, only returning

While Anya took off

we

brow, a flicker of suspicion crossing her features. Every time he started a sentence

to him invitingly. Anya

choosing his

future.

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narrowed slightly, suspicion creeping into

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

would say, this was at the bottom of the list. For some reason, she had never really considered moving out of the family mansion.

21 A much-needed

He sounded as though she had said she hated him. "That's not it,"

love for his house? It was the place where he ignored her the most, refused to have anything to do with her, and

she said coldly, her voice 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

and stared at her, his gaze searching hers. "You are right.

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