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."

years of loneliness and isolation she had endured, to shield her from the pain of feeling

that not bullying?" he said coldly, squeezing her hand.

not let them

his gaze, a small

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

to go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the mood became unknowingly soft and

the time Daniel and Anya made their way home,

hung over them like a hovering cloud as they approached the

but feel a sense of contentment wash over him. He and Anya were becoming inseparable as the days grew. It could

up to

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to their bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender and

his time

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

we talk?" he

furrowed her brow, a flicker of suspicion crossing her features. Every time he started a sentence this way, she

the bed, patting the space next to him invitingly. Anya

been thinking," Daniel began slowly, choosing his words

future.

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slightly, suspicion creeping into her expression. "What

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

bottom of the list. For some reason, she had never really considered moving out of the family mansion. Daniel

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sounded as though she had said she hated

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 a state of utter depression. When she thought of that house, she could not think

left me to stay in a lone day and night and even ignored me when I

he opened and stared at her, his gaze searching hers. "You are right. I did stupid things in that

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