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

said coldly, squeezing her hand. "They ignored

let

met his gaze, a small

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

as they sat there, hand in hand, Daniel seemed to go into deep thought. It

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

them like a hovering cloud as they approached

but feel a sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming inseparable as the

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

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their bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender and vanilla enveloping

spent all his

not wait to take Anya back home. While Anya took off her

can we

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

on the edge of the bed, patting the space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand

thinking," Daniel began slowly, choosing his

future.

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narrowed slightly, suspicion creeping into her expression. "What

before speaking, "I think it's time

his words. "Move? But why?" Of all the things she had thought he would say, this was at the bottom of the list. For

A

his words. He sounded as though she

the most,

a lone day and night and even ignored me

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

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