Chapter 242 - How Do You Know?

After Daniel reached London, he accompanied Will and Liz to Rachel's house and Patrick went to the secret location to get as much information as possible from Ethan and his assistant.

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"Right now Patrick is with Ethan and his assistant." Daniel informed everyone. 

"Good you involved Patrick" James appreciated what Daniel did.

"Now I understand why you called me yesterday." Harry exclaimed looking at his son.

"Yeah, I didn't want to tell you the truth yet because what if my intuition was wrong? Then I would have ended up giving you hope and then breaking it"

"I understand." Harry patted his son.

Daniel looked at Rachel but her attention was on William so Daniel decided to talk to her later.

"But mom is now fine, right?" Rachel asked William and Daniel.

"I guess so but she is still in a coma." Will said.

"How long has it been?" Catherine asked him.

"Seven years"

They all felt bad knowing this.

"When can we see her?" Rachel asked them.

"Right now, let her take some rest, the nurses who were here sanitized the room. After two hours you can visit her. Since we made her travel and all, we are taking some extra precautions." Daniel explained.

"Okay, got it" Catherine decided to wait as Daniel knew better.

Michael who was in a deep thought till now spoke up, "Will, how the fuck did Ethan manage to pull something like this? After how we handled him, he should not have been in the condition to do this to you guys. Also to hide you guys like this and to keep Liz alive for seven years he would need a lot of money, how did he manage all of this?" Michael raised a very logical question after listening to the whole story.

"No wonder you are one of the best lawyers uncle Mike" William praised him as Michael caught on to an amazing point.

"What are? Say 'you were', Michael retired" Anthony informed Will.

Will looked at him in surprise, "What? Already? You are still so young uncle"

"And you are still so cheeky" Michael commented and everyone laughed.

"Your father and I retired too." Anthony added.

"Wow you all are so old now" William made fun of the three old men.

"You have the audacity to call us old when you yourself are so old" James taunted his son.

William laughed, "Then business?"

"Yours is being handled by your daughter and our by Jim" Anthony informed him.

William looked at his daughter and he felt bad that at such a young age she is handling so many responsibilities, "Did you take over everything willingly or dad forced you?" William asked her.

"What the hell Will? You think I'll force my granddaughter to do something against her wish?" James shouted at his son.

"Dad, I know you very well. Let me talk to my daughter" Will ignored his anger and looked at Rachel.

"Dad, I willingly took over everything. I inherited your business talent and not mom's creativity" Rachel proudly told him and Will smiled in satisfaction.

"Good to know"

"You father-daughter can spend time together after some time, first tell us how Ethan managed to do all this" Michael interrupted the father-daughter who again turned emotional. 

"Okay, so before I tell you how Ethan managed all of this, I need to set some ground rules, this information should remain amongst us as it is very sensitive" William warned them.

Everyone assured him that this information will not leave this room.

"Before I tell you all what happened, I want to know, did you guys find out any information on the people who were behind those attacks on Rachel?" William asked them straightforwardly.

Everyone in the room was shocked with William's question as they didn't expect him to already know of these attacks on Rachel.

"How do you know about these attacks?" James questioned his son and looked at Daniel.

As William came back after a very long time, James decided to not trouble him with all this information for as long as possible, so he didn't intend to tell him about it, worrying him.

"I didn't tell him anything" Daniel immediately cleared the air.

"Dad, you really thought someone would attack my daughter and I wouldn't know?"

"But how do you know? You were not here."

"It was after knowing about that high-school attack on Rachel that I and Liz tried really hard to run away from there, it took us a few years to find an opportunity but that attack was what motivated us to run"

"You knew about it?" James had no idea William knew the details of the attacks too.

"Of course I do" William stroked Rachel's head, "Sorry, dad failed at coming to you and even after he got his chances he didn't come to you, I am very sorry Rachel" He sincerely apologized.

"Don't be sorry dad, I am glad you are alive, this is enough for me" 

"What do you mean by, you got your chances?" Harry asked him the question that was on everyone's mind.

"I'll explain everything, what did you people find out?" William questioned them as he had to know how much they already know before explaining everything.

"We got to know it is someone from MN corporation, who is trying to kill her" James shared the truth.

"Wow, that's impressive, you guys already reached till here" William nodded his head.

"Wait, you knew it was someone from MN corporation, behind it?" Anthony was surprised at William's knowledge.

"Yeah, I also know who is behind it and the reason behind their actions" William's revelation surprised everyone present there.

"How do you know?" James asked him to break the silence.

"Ethan told me, as it was the same person who tried to kill all of us with that car blast but because  Rachel managed to be alive, now they are again trying to kill her"

Everyone was surprised to know this.

"But why?" Catherine asked him.