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."

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

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

let

small smile tugging at

He was behaving unusually. He would call her baby at any moment

go into deep thought. It was unsure

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 the quiet

hung over them like a hovering cloud as they approached the

wash over him. He and Anya were

heart up to

A much-needed

bedroom, the familiar scent of lavender

room was basically theirs, as Daniel spent all his time there, only

took off her jewelry,

we

started a sentence this way, she knew something was about to happen. "About what?" she

invitingly. Anya joined him, his hand finding hers instinctively as they sat in

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

future.

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eyes narrowed slightly, suspicion creeping into

a while before speaking, "I think

was at the bottom of the list. For some reason, she had never really considered moving out of the

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He sounded as though she

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 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

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

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