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."

she had endured, to shield her from the pain

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

not let them kill

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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 to tell him to

into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the mood became

their way home, the sky painted in hues of purple and pink as

them like a hovering cloud

a sense of contentment wash over him.

greeted their parents first, with that she had opened her heart up to

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

basically theirs, as Daniel spent all his time there, only

could not wait to take Anya back home. While Anya took off her jewelry, Daniel turned to Anya, his gaze

can we

features. Every time he started a sentence this way, she knew something was about

on the edge of the bed, patting the space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as they

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

future.

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slightly, suspicion creeping into her expression.

while before speaking,

paused. Her mind was racing as she 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

21 A much-needed

though she had said she hated him.

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

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

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

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