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."

had endured, to shield her from the pain of feeling like an outsider.

that not bullying?" he said coldly, squeezing

let them kill

a small smile tugging at

He would call her baby at any moment and touch her when he felt like it. For some reason, she did not

Daniel seemed to go into deep thought. It

sun had dipped 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

hung over them like

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

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

23. A much-needed

bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender and vanilla enveloping

as Daniel spent all his time there, only

While Anya took off her

we talk?"

suspicion crossing her features. Every time he started a sentence this way, she

the space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as they sat

Daniel began slowly, choosing his words carefully.

future.

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into her expression. "What

at her for a while before speaking, "I think

"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

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

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

the house you left me to stay in a

tripped in his throat; his eyes squeezed shut for a bit before he opened and stared at

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