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."

to shield her from the pain of feeling like an outsider.

is that not bullying?" he said coldly, squeezing her

let them

small smile tugging at her

on her behalf. For some reason, she 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, she did not want to tell

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

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

Anya's dependence on Daniel hung over them like

sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were

up to

A

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

room was basically theirs, as Daniel spent all his time

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

we talk?" he

furrowed her brow, a flicker of suspicion crossing her features. Every time he started a sentence this way, she knew something was about to happen. "About what?"

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

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

future.

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slightly, suspicion creeping into her expression. "What

speaking, "I think

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

A much-needed

though she had said she

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

breath tripped in his throat; his eyes squeezed shut for a bit before he opened and stared at her, his

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