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."

of loneliness and isolation she had endured, to shield her from

bullying?" he said coldly, squeezing her hand. "They ignored

let them

a small smile tugging at

unusually. He would call her baby at any moment and touch her when he felt like it. For some reason, she did not want to tell

thought. It was

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

hung over them like 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 way up to Anya's

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

spent all his time

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

can we

he started a sentence

space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as they sat in

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

future.

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suspicion creeping into her expression. "What about

for a while before speaking,

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

as though she had said she hated

him that she did not hold love for his house? It was the place where he ignored her the most,

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

at her, his gaze searching hers. "You are

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