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."

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

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

let them kill

his gaze, a small

was behaving unusually. He would call her baby at any moment and touch her when he felt like it. For some reason, she

hand in hand, Daniel seemed to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the mood became unknowingly soft

and Anya made their way home, the

hand in hand; Anya's dependence on Daniel hung over them like a hovering cloud as they

of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming inseparable as the days grew. It could even

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

23. A

familiar scent of lavender and vanilla enveloping them as

as Daniel spent all his time there,

take Anya back home. While Anya took off her jewelry,

we

he started a sentence

space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as they sat in silence for a moment, gathering their

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

future.

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slightly, suspicion creeping into her

a while before speaking, "I think it's time for

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 hand, squeezing it gently. "You

A much-needed

as though she had said she hated him.

house? It was the place where he ignored her the

can't," she said coldly, her voice barely above a whisper. "That is the house you left me to stay in a lone day and

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

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