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 the pain

bullying?" he said coldly,

not let them

his gaze, a small smile tugging at

felt 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,

they sat there, hand in hand, Daniel seemed to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the mood

their way home, the sky

hand; Anya's dependence on Daniel hung over them like a hovering cloud as they approached the

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

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

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their bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender and

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

not wait to take Anya back home. While Anya took

can we talk?"

features. Every time he started a sentence this way, she

the space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as

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

future.

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into her expression. "What about

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

had thought he would say, this was at the bottom of the list. For some reason, she had never really considered moving out of

A much-needed

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

was she to explain 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 her, and put her in

she said coldly, her 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 on the living room floor in pain from my mother's

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

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