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

coldly, squeezing her hand.

let

a small smile tugging at her

was angry on her behalf. For some reason, she felt her heart sing. He was behaving unusually. He would call her

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

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

them like a hovering cloud

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

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

A much-needed

familiar scent

basically theirs, as Daniel spent all his time

took off her jewelry,

we talk?"

started a sentence this way, she

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 a

Daniel began slowly, choosing his

future.

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creeping into

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

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, squeezing it gently. "You don't want to

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words. He sounded as though she had said she hated him.

not hold love for his house? It was the place where 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

voice barely above a whisper. "That is the house you left me to stay in a lone day and night and even ignored me when I crawled

before he opened and stared at her, his gaze searching hers. "You are right. I did stupid things in that house. We can't

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