Chapter 168 - The Traitor

Megan was thankful that the other two people were reasonable.

"Fine if you say so" Jimmy calmed down after Rachel explained.

"You are my brother or Rachel's brother?" Daniel got annoyed with Jim as these days he listens and agrees to what Rachel says instead of him.

"Didn't I tell you I am team Rachel?"

"You can't be serious." Daniel was now jealous of Rachel.

"I was and I am very serious" Jimmy scoffed at him.

"Wait, you are his brother?" Megan asked in surprise as Jimmy earlier introduced them as his friends.

"Yeah, don't we look alike?" Jimmy asked Megan as a matter-of-fact.

"Umm you two are handsome but…" Megan didn't know what to say.

Rachel smiled at her, "Yeah they don't have very similar features though." Megan nodded her head as Rachel was right.

"Danny, am I adopted?" Jimmy again got worried.

"Jim, I promise you, you are not adopted, I was at the hospital when you were born and you have dad's eyes so chill."

"Danny then are you adopted?"

Daniel rolled his eyes, "No I am not, we just don't look very similar which is natural, stop overthinking."

"You sure?"

"Yes Jim, as a doctor you can believe my words."

"Okay"

Megan couldn't believe how Jimmy was acting in his brother's presence, he was acting all cute and like a spoilt child.

She smiled to herself and thought, this guy has many shades in him. 

Then they had lunch, Daniel and Rachel went back together, Jimmy and Megan went to the theater as they had rehearsals scheduled.

Megan was glad for this day, she was able to distract herself as in the morning before coming to the theater, she had a huge fight with Ronald and her mood was sour. For the last few days things were not great between them, he was not like this before but for the one month they had been staying together he had been annoying her. They fight everyday, she could feel his insecurity for not yet bagging a good role. He has been depending on her financially, which she didn't mind much but he keeps taunting her which becomes too much for her to handle.

She regretted her decision to move in with Ronald., she took this step to know him better and also because he insisted they do. 

One can't judge a person by only spending some time with him or her, rather by staying with a person shows things in a different and real perspective. Before committing to the next level of relationship Megan thought to give themselves a chance to know if this relation has a future or not. 

Before coming to a conclusion she wanted to give her relationship some time, so she was bearing with Ronald's tantrums to an extent.

But earlier that morning she saw a woman's earrings in her home and she lost her cool with Ronald as those earrings didn't belong to her.

Then Ronald told her that he lends their apartment to his friends in case they ever want to bring their girlfriends home and he told her it must have been some girl's earrings who accompanied his friend.

Megan was disgusted by what he did and she scolded him for lending their apartment like this and they had a huge argument.

She then asked him to clean the house properly before she comes back from her rehearsals and warned him to never lend their apartment like this to outsiders.

Ronald was also very angry but for the time being he agreed to it as he was at fault and it was him who brought a girl home and lied to Megan about it.

So, he just agreed to her words and decided to keep calm now because if Megan knows he cheated on her then she might kill him.

Megan was unaware of it and she thought he really lent their apartment to his friends as Ronald was capable of doing this.

After lunch she and Jim went for their rehearsals and in some time Amanada, Leo and Zoey too joined them and they practiced till late night.

Daniel and Rachel then went to Morris Mansion as Rachel insisted she wants to meet Catherine.

Harry and Catherine were pleasantly surprised to see Rachel there, as Daniel didn't inform them in advance of their arrival.

A day before when Catherine got to know about the attack she was worried for Rachel and wanted to meet her immediately but Anthony asked her not to as Rachel seemed to be in a very bad mood and he advised her to give some time to her.

Catherine was not ready to agree but Harry too convinced her to let Rachel be and they will meet her after a day or two, so when Rachel herself came here, she was very happy and she tightly hugged her.

"I am glad you are fine, I was really worried to know what happened." Catherine had tears in her eyes when she hugged Rachel.

Harry and Daniel went to another room to discuss something leaving the two women to spend some time together. 

"Yeah, grandpa told me about you wanting to meet me, so I came to meet you instead." 

"Thank you for showing up, these men were not letting me meet you." Catherine complained and Rachel smiled at her.

"How dare they?" Rachel was serious.

"I know right?"

"Auntie, if you ever want to meet me you can just call me and I'll come or you can come, don't listen to anyone else."

Catherine smiled too, "Thanks for saying that"

Then Rachel and Catherine talked to each other and Catherine asked her questions about Peebles and how she encountered those murderers as Anthony only gave her very brief information.

Rachel patiently answered all her questions and even told her why she ran away and how she met Daniel there.

"I am really sorry Rachel, we all fixed this alliance and made you take a step like this."

"Please don't apologize, it is not your fault. If after meeting Daniel I would have rejected him then none of you would have forced me, I didn't think through and took that decision in haste." 

Rachel skipped the part where she misunderstood it was Jimmy she was supposed to marry as it will be very offensive for Catherine and she didn't want to hurt her.

Then she told her how Daniel rescued her and safely dropped her home.

"I am glad Danny was there at that time."

Rachel nodded her head in agreement as she too was thankful for how things eventually turned out.

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"So, you told Rachel everything?" Harry asked in surprise.

"Hmm I did"

"Good, you will feel better now." Harry just patted his son on the shoulders.

Just then Daniel received a call from James and he was shocked to hear what James said.

Harry saw Daniel's reaction and he got worried.

After talking to James, Daniel seriously looked at his father.

"Is something wrong Dan?"

"Dad, Frank is missing, he ran away to some other country."

"Frank? The main head of Rachel's security team?"

"Yes, yesterday we wondered how that driver was able to reach Rachel so easily. Today, grandpa James and Patrick did their research and they got to know Frank was the one who hired him without thoroughly checking his records and the driver who was already captured, confessed that it was Frank who hired him to kill Rachel. Frank instructed him to give that dose to him, Sam and Rachel then after reaching a far away place with no one around, he asked him to kill Rachel and in case he fails then there was a tablet that was given to him which he is supposed to take. The driver himself was not aware that the tablet given to him would kill him instantly. He was told that the tablet would make him immune against any shock the cops would give him."

"I can't believe this" Harry was shocked to know Frank was the traitor and was behind the attack.

"So, Frank had been the one trying to kill Rachel all these years?"

"Not exactly, Frank is someone hired by those people to be around Rachel. He was her security head so he knew where she went and what she did, he was waiting for the right opportunity to attack her."

"Who hired Frank?"

"Grandpa James and that too after thorough background check"

"Oh god" Harry was shocked that even after so much verification they still ended up hiring the wrong guy.

"Dad it means when Frank was hired he was indeed trustworthy but later those people contacted him and bribed him with some incentives and he decided to help them as it is not possible for him to be associated with them before all of this."

"You are right, now it all makes sense."

"Also dad, this means the watchman who died during Rachel's high school attack and the man who died after attacking us on our way to London, they were not aware that they would die after taking that medicine, they were manipulated with lies."