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."

isolation she had endured, to shield her from the

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

let

small smile tugging at

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

go into deep thought. It was unsure what he was thinking about, but the mood

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

on Daniel hung over them like a hovering cloud as they approached the Shaw

stepped 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

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

as Daniel spent all his time there,

took off her jewelry,

can we talk?"

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

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

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

future.

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creeping into her expression.

before speaking,

words. "Move? But why?" Of all the things she had thought he would say, this was at the bottom of the list.

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

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

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

in his throat; his 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

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