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."

years of loneliness and isolation she had endured, to shield her from the pain of feeling like an outsider. His

said coldly,

not let

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her heart sing. He was behaving unusually. He would call her baby at any moment and touch her when he felt

hand, Daniel seemed to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he

below the horizon by the time Daniel and Anya made their way home, the sky painted

them like

Daniel couldn't help but feel a sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were

heart up to Wendy fussing over Anya, before

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

basically theirs, as Daniel spent all his

Anya back home. While Anya took off

we talk?" he

he started a sentence this way, she knew something was about to

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

Daniel began slowly, choosing his

future.

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eyes narrowed slightly, suspicion creeping into her expression. "What about our

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

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,

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

she paused. How was she to explain to him that she did not hold love for his house? It was the place where he ignored her the most, refused to have anything to do with her,

is the house you left me to stay in a lone day and night and even

opened and stared at her, his gaze searching hers.

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