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 from the pain of feeling like an
he said coldly,
let them
small smile tugging at
was angry on her behalf. For some reason, she felt her heart sing. He was behaving unusually. He would call her
seemed to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the
Anya made their way home,
hand; Anya's dependence on Daniel hung over them like a hovering cloud as
feel a sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming inseparable as the days grew. It could even
she had opened her heart up to Wendy fussing over Anya, before they
23. A
to their bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender and
basically theirs, as Daniel spent all his time
not wait to take Anya back home. 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
the space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand
began slowly, choosing
future.
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suspicion creeping into her expression.
before speaking,
Of all the things she had thought he would say, this was at the bottom of the list. For some
A much-needed
as though she had said she hated him.
her the most, refused to have anything to do with her, and put her in a state of utter depression. When
me to stay in a lone day and night and even ignored me
throat; his eyes 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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