Catherine laughed at her words

"I know I am amazing."

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"You sure are."

"I'll go and sleep now and I hope you utilize this night well. If you need anything in the middle of the night then don't hesitate to disturb Daniel, this is his room" Catherine winked at her.

Rachel didn't understand what she meant.

"Have you forgotten? You told me you like Daniel. Isn't this a good chance to make a move?"

Rachel now remembered how she confessed her feelings to Catherine during their night out.

"Wow, what an amazing mother you are asking me to make a move on your son."

"I know right, don't disappoint me."

Rachel laughed at her words.

"Sure, good night, sleep dreams."

"Good night dear and see how desperate you are to send me away." Catherine continued teasing her.

"No I didn't mean anything like that." she waved her hands.

"I am kidding sweetie, bye"

Catherine then left and Rachel went to have a hot shower.

Daniel was in his room and was feeling sleepless, 'I want to spend more alone time with Rachel, this is a good opportunity but it would be so weird to go to her room so late at night' some wild thoughts were running in his mind.

He then received a message from his mother who informed him that she gave the room opposite his to Rachel, he got very excited but he still found it awkward to go to her room in the middle of the night. He tried to think of some excuses to go and meet her but just then there was a knock on his door, he hoped it was not Jimmy and opened the door.

He was happily surprised to see Rachel standing there, she was wearing a yellow t-shirt and white shorts, she smelled amazing and he realized she just had her bath, her hair was left open and she looked damn sexy, he gulped looking at her long sexy legs, 'Daniel control yourself' he instructed to his racing heart.

"Hey I am not feeling sleepy and I am really bored, so came to check on you." Rachel explained.

After the shower Rachel was feeling restless as it was a new place and she had an urge to meet Daniel so she gathered all her courage and was motivated by Catherine's words and decided to meet Daniel.

"Same here, I am not feeling sleepy at all, please come in." Daniel gladly welcomed her in.

Rachel looked at Daniel's room, it was designed similar to his room in the penthouse, the only difference was this room had more decor than the one in the penthouse, this reminded her she was supposed to go decor shopping with him.

"Hey weren't we supposed to shop for your home decor?" Rachel asked him.

"Oh right, it totally slipped my mind. Will Sunday be comfortable for you?"

"Sure"

Then Rachel comfortably sat on his bed, she leaned on the headboard and sat with her legs crossed.

Daniel felt the room temperature rise and he decreased the AC temperature.

"Are you feeling hot?" Rachel asked, shivering a bit.

"Oh sorry, you feeling cold?" Daniel asked her.

"Yeah kinda, isn't the weather outside cold?" Rachel sarcastically asked him.

"Oh I am so sorry."

"No no it's okay, I'll just cover myself with your comforter, is that fine?"

"Absolutely."

In that moment Daniel was jealous of his comforter as Rachel wrapped it around herself, she wanted to cover her long exposed legs, all the night clothes Cat bought for her had only shorts and there were no long pants, she was feeling cold but was also embarrassed and conscious of her clothes around Daniel.

Daniel was wondering whether to sit on the bed next to her or to sit on the couch.

"What happened?" Rachel innocently asked him, she had no idea what was going on in his mind.

"Umm Nothing"

"Are you not comfortable with me being in your room?"

"No no that's not the case, I was wondering will you be comfortable if I sit on the bed."

Rachel laughed at him, "Haha you are so cute Daniel, I don't mind, come sit on your bed, please make yourself feel comfortable." she joked.

Daniel then sat next to her, he was wearing a black t-shirt and comfortable long track pants so he was not feeling cold.

He could smell a fresh fragrance coming from Rachel, it was mostly the smell of the body she used, he had a sudden urge to pull her closer to him and kiss her, he wanted to sniff and snuggle with her, but he was in his sane mind and knew it would startle her and would ruin the friendship they are developing, he therefore fought all these urges.

"How was your day today?" Daniel initiated to strike a conversation as he really had to distract himself from his lewd thoughts.

"It was not that hectic, we are preparing for a project, our prep is done now from Monday we will be putting it into motion."

"Oh, you will be very busy from Monday I guess."

"Yeah, high chances of me having a hectic week ahead, we are currently bidding for a project, we will submit our proposal then Miss. Carlson will decide to go ahead with our project or not and if she does decide to go with it, we will meet soon."

"Miss Carlson as in Jessica?"

"Hmm, your dad said you two were very close." Rachel got a bit annoyed remembering Anthony's words of forming a marriage alliance between Daniel and Jessica.

Daniel thought this would be the right time to clear any kind of misunderstanding.

"Jessica has always been very cold and rude to people, although she was from an elite family, her attitude was so repulsive that she never had friends in school. Although we knew each other since our childhood because of our families, we never interacted much. She too was always alone and at times some of the girls from my batch used to bully her and she used to royally ignore them." Daniel smiled recollecting the old days.

Rachel got annoyed when Daniel smiled thinking of Jessica.

He sensed her annoyance but still continued, "A guy from our batch used to like Jessica and he proposed to her, as expected from her she rejected him. That guy couldn't take rejection well and decided to humiliate her."

Hearing this Rachel got a bad feeling and felt bad for Jessica.

"He approached his group, then them and the group of girls who were jealous of Jess, they all decided to shoot a video of her naked."

"What the fuck" Rachel got furious as she didn't expect things to turn this way.

"Yeah, don't worry they didn't succeed." he gave her the spoilers to not worry her and continued, "The plan was these girls would drag her to an isolated area in the school and tear her clothes and the guys will shoot the video but Jess was trained in martial arts, so she was able to deal with the girls and was not dragged to this isolated area but one of the guys came to attack her and he was very strong so she couldn't dodge it, he took her to that isolated area where they planned to insult her but luckily I too reached there, that day Jimmy asked me to meet at that isolated area as he wanted to discuss something, we two reached there and we saw this scene where Jess was fighting that guy, she was trying her best to deal with him, me and Jimmy quickly went on her side and we both together were obviously stronger than that guy and were able to beat him blue and black. Then we quickly ran away from there with Jess and we straightaway went to the school principal, we told her everything that happened and told the names of people we knew were there, after that they were called and principal questioned all these people, we then got to know what their intentions were, Jess was really disturbed after knowing their plan as what they were planning to do would scare anyone. She thanked me and Jimmy for helping her. Since, then she became close friends with me and Jimmy."

"I am so glad you two reached there, I can't imagine the consequences, it would have been so traumatic for her." Rachel felt bad knowing how Jessica must have felt.

Daniel nodded his head in agreement.

"I am curious about one more thing."

"What?"

"Why did Jimmy ask you to meet at a place like that?"

"As you know we were in Italy at that time with our parents, we were always surrounded by them and we two had no privacy, my mom is cool but at that time she was very nosy, even now she is a bit nosy though, she always wanted to know what we were discussing about, he wanted to talk about something personal and couldn't do so at home, and at school I was always surrounded by my friends, so he asked me to meet in that isolated area, so we always go there to discuss important or personal stuff, it was kind of our spot and that day too we went there and witnessed all of this."