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."

endured, to shield her

that not bullying?" he said coldly,

let

small

some reason, she felt her heart sing. He was behaving unusually. He would call her baby at any moment and touch her when he

hand, Daniel seemed to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the

below the horizon by the time Daniel and Anya made their way home, the sky painted in hues of purple and pink as dusk settled over

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

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

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

A much-needed

familiar scent of lavender and vanilla

Daniel spent all his time there,

to take Anya back home. While Anya took off her

we talk?"

her brow, a flicker of suspicion crossing her features. Every time he started a

the space next to him invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as they sat in silence for a moment,

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

future.

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narrowed slightly, suspicion creeping into

speaking, "I

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

A

He sounded as though she had said

ignored her the most, refused to have anything to do with her, and put

is the house you left me to stay in a lone day and night and even ignored me when I crawled on

eyes squeezed shut for a bit 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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