Chapter 243 - Peace Pact

"But why?" Catherine asked him.

"It is a long story. MN corporation was started by Nathan Morgan. He single-handedly started a very successful business. Nathan had three brothers who were totally useless and were failures in life. So, they survived on Nathan's money. Later Nathan had a son and his wife died in childbirth. Nathan never pampered his son but always pushed him to give his best as he wanted his son to take over his business after him."

William looked at everyone, they were paying utmost attention to him, he continued, "His son, unlike Nathan, was not highly ambitious, he had simple dreams and wanted a simple lifestyle. He always wanted to be an artist as he liked painting but Nathan forced him to study business. For his father's happiness he did. Nathan's son always did his best to make his father happy but Nathan never appreciated him as he believed he needs to be tough to push his son to the top"

"Nathan's son then fell in love with a not-so-rich girl but Nathan obviously opposed it as he wanted his son to marry into some big business family. Nathan's son's girlfriend then got pregnant and still Nathan didn't accept them. She then gave birth to a daughter and hoped Nathan would accept her as his daughter-in-law after giving borth to his grandchild but he didn't so she decided to commit suicide as she felt helpless. She then left her daughter in an orphanage but Nathan's son found out about it and he tried to stop her. He promised to leave the MN corporation behind for her. He said he just wanted her and their daughter. Although Nathan's brothers were good people, his second brother's son, Charlie Morgan, wasn't that nice. He always eyed the MN corporation and wanted to take over."

"That night before Nathan's son and his girlfriend could go back to the orphanage to take their daughter, Charlie attacked them and got them killed. Charlie had no idea about the daughter they already had. But Nathan knew about his granddaughter but he never bothered about her and didn't care. Nathan got over his sadness of losing his son and handled MN corporation by himself, slowly he involved Charlie in everything as he was capable enough, but one day he got to know that Charlie was the one who killed his son for power. That day Nathan realized the biggest mistake he committed. He tried to search for his granddaughter and got to know she is already married into another rich family, the Richardsons"

Everyone there was shocked with the final revelation.

There was silence for a few minutes.

"Wait, Elizabeth is Nathan Morgan's granddaughter?" Catherine broke the long silence.

William nodded his head, "He wanted to approach Liz and me to discuss all of this as he wished to transfer the entire MN Corporation to our names but he realized how brutal Charlie is so to protect himself, he created a will which said whenever Nathan dies the entire MN Corp will be transferred to we three as by that time we already had Rachel."

"Wait, Nathan Morgan has been paralysed and is still alive, right?" Harry asked him.

Will nodded his head, "Yes, he is currently 97 years old and still alive. After he changed the will, Charlie tried to harm him but didn't dare to kill the old man as the lawyers then would have contacted Rachel. 

Charlie manipulated things the way that after Nathan's paralysis he would have the whole power in his hands and later his son Brent too joined him and now he took over everything. So, since then Charlie and Brent tried to kill us so that they could have the whole corporation to themselves."

"Fuck" Harry cursed after knowing the truth.

"They hired Ethan to kill us but Ethan went against their plan as he was in love with Liz. Morgans don't know that Liz and I are still alive. Now Rachel is the only hurdle they have according to them."

"How do you know all of this?" James asked him.

"Ethan told me. He used to update me every time Rachel was attacked as he had someone working for him in the MN Corp, he too had to be careful to hide the truth. If Charlie or Brent knows what Ethan did they will kill him. Ethan offered me many times to run away from his clutches to save my daughter. It was his way to tempt me to run away so that he can take Liz away. I always had faith in you dad, Rachel had you but Liz has no one but me and therefore I couldn't leave from there. If I had left, then Ethan would have taken Liz away somewhere and we would have failed at ever finding her"

"Dad, you did the right thing. Mom needed you" Rachel assured him that she is not upset about Will's decision.

"Thank you for being so understanding, dear but dad was very cruel to you."

"No Will, Rachel had all of us. We have been protecting her all these years so you did the right thing, Liz only had you" Harry too supported Rachel's statement.

Will just nodded his head.

"So, this is the scenario" Michael rubbed his chin.

"Hmm" 

"What if we make a peace pact with them? We can just say we are not interested in MN Corp and they can keep it, in exchange for them not killing Rachel, Liz and Will?" Catherine suggested.

Michael smiled, "The world is not black and white dear. Nathan's life would be endangered and technically MN Corp belongs to Nathan, he is the one who decides the person who can inherit it, he built it with his hard work."

"Then we should just let them kill our child?" Catherine for the first time shouted, surprising everyone there.

"Woah, do you love my daughter more than I?" William teased her to lighten the mood as he could see how furious Cat was.