Chapter 16 - Suffering And Pain

Andrew shouted at Sophia pointing his finger at her, "All because of you….all because of you...I shouldn't have to listen to you. I am a fool, everytime I fall for your words and act according to your plan"

Sophia felt wronged and said, "listen to me please, how is it my fault, why are you blaming me?".

He shouted, "you told me to wait for two days for the test results. See what happened now. She escaped from here".

Sophia, "how can you say that? I was just worried that if you keep on appearing in front of her it might trigger her memory and she might recognise you and once the report is out we can be more sure. I didn't expect things to turn this way and that she would run away soon."

He said, "Now, I strongly believe she faked her memory loss after seeing me and she escaped from here with the help of that doctor."

Sophia "How can you be so sure, she may be somewhere around, may be she went to live with the doctor as she cant afford to stay in the hotel, you are worrying unnecessarily"

Andrew said "ok let us go to the doctor's house to confirm".

Andrew called the security man and threatened him and told him to find out Dr Daniel's address and inform him in an hour. He was eagerly waiting for the call then he received a call from a security man and noted the address. He warned him not to leak about this incident.

Both went to Dr Daniel's house, as it was a small town within less than 10 minutes they reached his house. They have confirmed that nobody was seeing them. They walked towards the main door hoping they could find Rachel.

Seeing the locked door both were very upset thinking what to do now. They both went away from that place.

Both were sitting quietly on the beach.

Many questions were floating in their minds. She has lost memory or faked memory loss. Either way she will complain to the police as she can get back her memory later. They were worried and tense but suddenly Sophia realised something and had a wicked smile on her face.

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At Rachel's house in London

James Richardson, Rachel's grandpa was tensed, Rachel called him a few hours back to inform him that she would be coming the next day as there was some issue with the car they were travelling in and they were staying in the town for the night.

He knows his granddaughter and he felt she was hiding something from him and she didn't give him the complete information.

"Richardson, have this scotch and relax, don't worry your granddaughter will come home tomorrow." Anthony Morris handed him a glass of scotch and sat next to him.

"Morris, the child went missing for three months and she called me yesterday that she is coming back home. You know how crazily I was searching for her since the past three months, when I knew where she was I should have personally gone to bring her here instead of waiting for her to come, if yesterday I would have gone to that town today my grandchild would have already been here. It is all my fault, I think I am too ignorant towards Rachel."

"What nonsense are you brewing, you, Robert and Sam were trying to trace her for the past three months, your granddaughter didn't use any card and used only cash to do her transactions. Yesterday we got to know she was in a coma and maybe that's why we were not able to trace her but she is fine and she is an intelligent girl, she will come back safely, don't worry." Grandpa Michael consoled Rachel's grandpa.

Michael Brown is Anthony and Richardson's best friend, he got married four times in his life but he never had any children. These two best friends of his were his only family. Anthony told him that Rachel who was supposed to come home hadn't arrived yet and therefore these two friends came here to support grandpa Richardson.

"Can you believe it? My grandchild was in a coma and I had no idea about it, I failed as a grandfather. I couldn't protect my baby."

"Richard, you are being too hard on yourself." Michael felt bad seeing his friend's condition.

They saw the suffering and pain grandpa had to go through in these three months. For the first few days grandpa thought Rachel would be back once she calms down but after four days, there was no contact from Rachel and her phone was unreachable. Grandpa panicked as he already lost his entire family a few years back and he only had Rachel, now she too was gone and knowing that Rachel's life is in danger, grandpa panicked even more.

The only relief grandpa had was her body was not found which implied she was alive. Grandpa even assumed she got kidnapped but since there were no ransom calls he let go of that possibility. He even hired the best detectives but they too couldn't trace Rachel's whereabouts. It was not their fault Rachel had an accident within two days of her running away from home and therefore she never used her cards and therefore she was not traceable. He didn't go to the police to file the case because he didn't want to blow this case out of proportion and it might piss off Rachel and might unnecessarily damage her reputation.

Grandpa didn't publicize this in the news because it might alert the people who wanted to take Rachel's life and it might complicate things in case they were actually not involved in it.

Grandpa lost weight and looked more pale and weak since Rachel ran away from home, he regretted forcing Rachel into a marriage alliance and cursed his behaviour.