Chapter 76 - James' Source

Daniel just reached home and he was a bit stressed, he went to meet grandpa James and the discussion really turned intense, he was getting more and more worried about Rachel after this meeting.

He went to his room and changed into comfortable clothing, he went to meet grandpa directly after his work so he was tired after a hot shower he went to rest, as soon as he relaxed on the bed he received a message from Rachel, 'What's up with my slave?'

He totally forgot about the chess game they played the previous night. 

'The slave is very tired'

'Today I met with your mom and we had a great time together'

'Yeah I saw the picture you sent me, how was the date?'

Rachel sent a selfie with Catherine to Daniel

"It was damn good, it is one of the best dinners I ever had."

'That's nice, isn't my mom awesome'

'She is super awesome, as my slave I order you to give your mom to me'

Daniel chuckled at her words and typed, 'Well you have to ask my dad, to be honest she doesn't belong to either me or Jimmy"

'What?' Rachel laughed reading his message

"Yeah my father informed us of this when we were very young.'

Rachel laughed harder reading this message and thought he was just joking.

'Stop kidding' she replied back.

'I am not, I am serious, he told us that'

'What? Why?'

'Me and Jim were having an argument about who mom belongs to between us, I claimed she is mine as I am her first born and he said she is his as he is the latest born'

'Hahahahaha you two are ridiculous and what the hell is latest born'

'It means he is the fresh child they had and I am the old one, then dad was so fed up of us that he warned us that she only belongs to him and from that day he kept on feeding these words to us till we accepted that fact'

'Your dad seems to be crazy about your mom'

'Hmm he is'

'Daniel I want to ask you something, please answer me honestly' Rachel decided to come on the main topic.

'Sure'

'Did you tell grandpa about the attack on us when we were on the way to London?'

This was the reason she messaged him, she wanted to know if Daniel was the one who broke her trust.

"No, I didn't' he honestly replied.

Rachel sighed in relief, she would have gone crazy if it was Daniel, she then assumed it must have been some other source and didn't care about it as long as Daniel isn't the one who broke her trust she doesn't care who it is.

'Good to know that' Rachel messaged him

'Did something happen?'

'Hmm, my grandpa knows about that attack and I don't know how''

'Good he does, it is better than hiding truth from him'

'Yeah and therefore he increased the security around me'

'That's good, please be more careful from now onward' Daniel too expressed his concern.

'Also Daniel, did you find out anything about the message that I received two days back?'

Daniel tightly shut his eyes in frustration he hates hiding stuff from her but he promised the old man that he would, so he decided to lie to her, 'No, not yet'

'Oh okay'

Then they called it a night and Rachel slept thinking about her parents' love story and Daniel was worried as he recollected the events of today.

…

Few hours back

After finishing off the work at the hospital, he went to Michael's house as that's where James called him for the meet.

When he reached there he saw all three old men already waiting for him and they looked very tense, especially James.

"Have a seat Daniel" James instructed but it sounded more like a command, Daniel followed his instruction and sat on the couch next to Michael.

"Anthony, Is Catherine with Rachel?" James seriously asked.

"Yes the driver informed me, the two women met and are spending time together, I am sure she will definitely engage her till late night."

"Did you tell her anything?" James again questioned Anthony, here he referred to Catherine.

"No, but since she is meeting Rachel for the first time after so long, I am damn sure she won't let her off the hook so easily."

"That's good." 

Rachel being around someone was very important and unknown to her there were bodyguards who were secretly following her, they too were sending Rachel's updates to James from time to time but he still wanted to hear from Anthony as it assured him more coming of the information from Anthony.

Daniel didn't understand what was happening but he knew it was something very serious. 

"Are we waiting for someone?" Daniel finally asked as it seemed they were waiting for someone else too as even after he came they were still sitting silently.

"Yes" James didn't give any more information. Michael and Anthony too were waiting in anticipation as they too had no idea who they were waiting for.

Last night James decided to stay at Michael's house and they even summoned Anthony, James had a call with someone and he looked very worried after that, he then called Daniel and asked his permission to let Rachel stay at his home for the night and decided to have this meeting, he told his friends that he will inform they everything the next day.

The only information that the other two old men had but Daniel didn't was, they are waiting for James' source who is going to come here soon, he is the one who told James about the attack on Rachel and had been giving him information about everything dangerous that was happening around her.

They waited for 10 minutes and then the doorbell rang, Michael hurriedly went towards the door as he was the most curious of all to know who was this source, when he opened the door in anticipation he was shocked to see that man standing at the door, he was totally surprised as he didn't expect this young man to be James' source.

"You are James' source" he exclaimed, still in shock, the man standing at the door nodded and entered the house and sat on the couch opposite to Daniel.

It was for the first time that Daniel saw this man who was dressed in a light blue shirt and brown pants. Anthony and Michael already knew this guy and were surprised to see him here, James then cleared his voice and seriously introduced them to each other, "Daniel, this is Patrick, he is currently heading the police department in London, he used to work in Scotland before and he decided to come back due to some personal reasons, he is Rachel's childhood friend and he is the one who told me about the attack that happened on you when you were on the way to London." James directly came on point.

Daniel was surprised that James knew about that attack as Rachel asked him to never tell her grandpa about it.

"How did you know about that attack?" Daniel questioned Patrick.

"Rachel told me, she came to the station to file a complaint against those two serial killers and at that time she mentioned it, she insisted I hide this from grandpa but there is a reason why I couldn't so as soon as she left I called him and informed him everything." Patrick had no intentions of hiding anything from Daniel, if grandpa called Daniel here it meant grandpa trusts him and it implied he too can trust him.

Daniel was not sure what to say anymore, he was silent.

"Daniel we also know about the attacker committing suicide right in front of you. Is there any other information you have?" James seriously inquired Daniel.

"No, there were no leads there. What is exactly happening? Why is someone trying to kill Rachel?" Daniel finally asked the question that has been bothering him for very long.

"We are not sure but this attack on her wasn't the first one." Patrick answered Daniel's question. Daniel then looked at Patrick in confusion and was waiting for him to say more.

"When we were in high school, me and my group of friends volunteered for cleaning the school after the school hours, our group consisted of me, Rachel and four other friends of ours. I was very close with the watchman of our school, he was a humble person and used to help us run our errands. Suddenly, he stopped coming to school and the school hired a new watchman temporarily, I got really weird vibes from this watchman so in between classes and during my break, I used to keep an eye on him, one day I noticed whenever Rachel was around him he used to only look at her, his eyes followed wherever she went and he was kind of observing her, when I saw this I had a very bad feeling and I ensured I was always around Rachel. Now, we all volunteered to stay at school after the school hours for a week, the first three days went in peace and there was no problem but on the fourth day…"