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."

isolation she had endured, to shield her from the pain of feeling like an outsider. His anger was

that not bullying?" he said coldly, squeezing her

let them

his gaze, a small

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

thought. It was unsure what he was thinking

home, the sky painted in hues of purple and pink

dependence on Daniel hung over them like a hovering cloud as they

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

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

23. A much-needed

to their bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender and vanilla enveloping

theirs, as Daniel spent all his time there, only returning to his room to

While Anya took off her jewelry, Daniel turned

we

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

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

been thinking," Daniel began slowly, choosing his words

future.

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creeping into her expression. "What about our

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

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

A much-needed

He sounded as though she

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

her voice barely above a whisper. "That is the house you left me to stay in a lone day

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

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