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."

she had endured, to shield her from the

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

let them kill

gaze, a small

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

there, hand in hand, Daniel seemed to go into deep thought. It was unsure

and Anya made their way home, the sky painted in hues of purple and pink as dusk settled

on Daniel hung over them like a hovering cloud as they approached the Shaw

contentment wash over him. He and Anya

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

23. A

bedroom, the familiar scent

his time

to take Anya back home. While Anya took off her jewelry, Daniel turned to

can we talk?" he

time he started a sentence this way, she knew something was about to happen. "About what?"

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

Daniel began slowly, choosing his words

future.

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slightly, suspicion creeping into her

speaking,

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, she had never really considered moving out of the family mansion. Daniel reached for her hand,

A much-needed

his words. He sounded as though she had said she

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

stay in a lone day and night and even ignored me when I crawled on

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

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