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."

to shield her from the pain of feeling like an outsider. His anger was

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

not let them kill

gaze, a small

her baby at any moment and touch her when he felt like it. For some reason,

to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the

way home, the sky painted in

dependence on Daniel hung over them

but feel a sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming inseparable as the days grew. It

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

23. A much-needed

bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender and vanilla enveloping them as

as Daniel spent all his

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

can we talk?"

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

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

Daniel began slowly, choosing his words

future.

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

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

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

A

heart ached at his words. He sounded as though she had said she hated him.

he ignored her the most, refused to have anything to do with her, and put her in a state of utter depression. When she thought of that house, she could not

stay in a lone day and night and even ignored me when I crawled on the living room floor in pain from

shut for a bit before he opened and stared at her, his gaze searching hers. "You are right. I

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