Chapter 23 - Carlson Project

"Ok dear, you have decided to complain. I can't stop you as you are so stubborn and once decided no one can stop you. But you should be careful and you need some help. You can take help from my friend who was the most famous detective and cracked many cases. Even though he had retired now he had updates about cases and many cops visited him to seek advice."

"Ok grandpa, let me handle this. I will take care of myself and won't let that criminals walk away free. They will pay for their deeds."​​

Rachel wants to know some updates regarding business so grandpa gave her all the information and said that Sam and Robert were coming tomorrow to meet her. He told her she can have a detailed discussion with Sam as he has been handling everything related to business since three months..

She replied "good, he is coming tomorrow. Anyway I was planning to set a meeting with him".

Both said good night to each other and went to their rooms. Grandpa didn't discuss the marriage alliance he planned to set up with Anthony's grandson because he didn't want to trigger her.

Rachel was so excited entering into her room, she decided to sleep on her soft bed but before that she went near the wall where her childhood family photo was hung. She looked at the picture, where she was standing with her parents and grandparents, all of them were looking happy. A stream of emotions passed through her remembering her family, although she was young when they died, she still has vague memories of them.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the maid who entered her room with the glass of milk. She took the glass and went to the book shelf while sipping milk.

Her favourite author was Sidney Sheldon, she had all his books in her collection. She had other authors' collections also but her all time favourite was him. She took a novel from her shelf and read it. After a while she was feeling sleepy so she kept the book aside and started thinking about Daniel. She was really grateful for him as he helped her out and safely dropped her here, she feels secured when she is with him.

She thought he was a perfect gentleman, every girl would want to marry someone like him. She thought when will she meet him next time and she remembered her grandpa invited him on sunday and she was looking forward to meeting him.

She was feeling sleepy but when she started thinking about Daniel she lost her sleep and couldn't stop thinking more and more about him and imagining scenarios of what would happen on sunday and what dress to wear. With all these thoughts she fell asleep in the early morning.

Next Day morning

Rachel woke up early in spite of sleeping late, after freshening up and having breakfast with grandpa she waited for Robert and Sam. They both reached Rachel's house at the scheduled time.

Rachel was sitting on the sofa with her laptop, she was reading her emails. She was dressed in a casual white T-shirt paired with black jeans. Sam entered with a cheerful face holding a bouquet. He was looking cool in a blue shirt tucked in black pants, he was looking more casual than his office look. He walked towards Rachel and handed over the bouquet of yellow roses and asked about her well being. Robert, Sam's father followed him behind and asked "Rachel how are you?"

Rachel said "I am fine uncle. Thanks a lot you guys had taken care of grandpa and our business. I am really thankful", she turned towards Sam and said "you had handled our business very well, I can see that from the mails."

Robert asked Rachel where her grandpa was?

She told him he is on a call and asked him to wait. Sam sat next to Rachel and took out his laptop, Robert sat across the two in another sofa and was waiting for the old man.

"You guys want some coffee or tea?" Rachel asked the two.

"No, we are fine" Sam answered on behalf of his father. Just then the servant came and offered water to the guests.

"Sam, let's start with the updates."

"Before you left, there was a project we worked on."

"The cosmetics one?"

"Yes"

"Oh yeah, I left it mid-way, I am sorry Sam."

"Don't worry Rachel, rest of the work was done perfectly and we were able to crack this deal last month and we won the contract."

"That's great, I didn't see it in the mail, I was only able to go through the mails of the first month I left, I still need to go through the mails from the other two months."

"Yes, that's why you didn't see it, this deal was cracked last week and I have been sending you all the mails to keep you updated."

"Thank you so much Sam for handling the projects well in my absence."

"Don't be so formal Rachel, it is my job and all our employees are very efficient, since the work was already allotted to them they did their job well."

"I am glad we chose the best employees."

"Of course. Other than this, all the projects we got before you left are perfectly going on according to the timeline we decided so all projects are going great, nothing to worry about. Do you remember the Carlson project we were studying about?"

"Oh yeah, I totally forgot about it. What about that?"

"Just as you predicted, their head is planning to launch a fashion show and is looking for fashion designers for their event, it will be a good opportunity for us to promote our brand further."

"Yes, that's what I told you."

"Exactly, this fashion show is limited to only four brands and is going to be very exclusive, if we get to participate here, it will be a great opportunity even if we don't win it."

"Ok, let's work on this next then"

"Sure"