Daniel continued, the story from his past, "So, he pointed his gun at me to kill me and shot the bullet, everything happened so quickly we didn't realize what was happening and just then Vic pushed me aside and took the bullet instead. It hit him right on the forehead and he died on spot."

A stream of tears flowed from Daniel's eyes and no matter how much he tried to control, the tears didn't stop and he cried remembering his friend's death.

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Rachel hugged him tightly and stroked his back, she too had tears in her eyes after knowing what happened.

If she was crying after knowing what happened then she couldn't imagine what Daniel might have been going through after witnessing all of it himself and after losing his closest friend so cruelly right in front of his eyes.

They cried for some time and Rachel kept hugging him to make him feel better but she knew it was just her effort but nothing can make him feel better right now.

After some time, Daniel composed himself and drank water, he looked at Rachel to see she too was crying a lot as there were dry tears around her eyes.

"I am sorry for…"

"Please don't, I am sorry for making you go through the worst memories of your life. I am sorry Daniel for forcing you to tell me the truth."

"No Rach, some day I had to tell you the truth, I can't hide the biggest truth of my life from you forever. I was planning to tell you all of it one day when the time would be right, I never intended to hide anything from you. I guess today the time was right." He lightly smiled at her.

She too smiled at him and Daniel continued from where he stopped, "After that incident I left the secret organization as I realized I am not good enough to make decisions, if that day I wouldn't have made the decision to ignore their threats then Vic would have been alive. If I was the one who died that day then Vic would have been alive. I indirectly killed him, I am the reason he died."

"You can't blame yourself for it Dan, he too was not willing to give in to the threats, it was his decision too."

"No Rach, it wasn't. If I would have opposed it then he had no way to do anything on his own. It was the biggest mistake of my life which can never be undone."

"Daniel, am I the reason that the watchman in my high school who tried to attack me died?"

"What? No Rachel, of course not."

"The man who committed suicide by eating a pill when we are on way to London, am I reason behind his death?"

"No of course not, what are you trying to say Rach?"

"Exactly Daniel, you too are not the reason behind Vic's death, it was fate."

"No Rach, it is just an excuse to not take the blame and responsibility for my actions and decisions."

"Daniel…"

"No Rach, I am the reason why Vic died and I take responsibility for it."

"Fine, if that is what you decided I'll not try to convince you otherwise."

"Thank you"

"And then you went back to being a doctor?"

"Yes and Paul took over the secret organization and he is handling everything."

"Did you ever contact Paul again?"

"Hmm, only two weeks ago when you sent me that threat message you received during your reunion, I contacted Paul to get more information on that message."

Rachel looked at him in shock, "You hate that world but you had to contact them because of me?"

She felt guilty.

"Don't feel guilty or blame yourself Rach, I didn't contact him for you, I contacted him for me. I can't let anything happen to you, as I love you and this is me being selfish when I contacted him again."

"Are you intending to go back to that world?" She figured out why he was disturbed a few days back.

"I guess that is the only way left if I want to know who is hell bent on killing you."

"No Daniel, no need for that, if the worst comes to worst we can take Paul's help, you don't have to enter that world."

"Rach, now that organization is not as weak as it was a few years back, it is the most powerful organization in Italy now. Paul really did a good job. Even if I go back, I won't be taking the position of the first in command as I am undeserving of it, I'll just join them."

"No Daniel, I don't want you to go back to that world again."

"Hmm, I am still figuring it out."

"Is this the reason that your dad shifted back to London?"

"Yes, they all shifted back as mom and Jimmy were very disturbed after Vic's death, just like me Jim too blamed himself for what happened, it took us all some time to recover from this tragedy. That was the reason we all decided to settle in London. Jimmy too studied business management to take over our business but his heart was never in it."

Rachel nodded her head as everything made sense now. She felt really bad to know what the Morris' went through. The pain behind their happiness was something she saw now.

She tightly hugged Daniel, "I am sorry you had to go through all of this all alone. I promise from now on I'll ensure you and your family would never encounter anything like this."

He lovingly stroked her hair, "If you are safe then I won't go through this again."

"I promise I'll be."

Then they went to the living room and the three old men were not there so she looked at Daniel questioning him what happened, where they were.

"I requested my grandpa to take them away for some time, so that we could have some privacy and a proper fight."

"So you knew we would be having this conversation?"

"Not exactly but I kind of had an idea that whatever would be happening between us won't be easy to handle."

"As usual you are very smart"

Daniel just slightly smiled and after some time the three old men came back and James found Rachel who was angry earlier calmed down now.

They all talked to each other normally as earlier the three old men were scared of Rachel.

James then updated everyone that the driver they captured was still under their control. Sam and Frank woke up and were fine.

Sam was safely dropped at his house and Frank too decided to rest for now as there were still some after effects of the dose they were injected with and they still felt sleepy.

"Oh good to know they are fine." Rachel was relieved that they were only sleepy and there was nothing serious with them.

"I actually wonder how that driver was able to be so close to Rachel." Anthony shared his thoughts.

"Yeah, every bodyguard was hired by Frank and he ensured no suspicious people were hired for even small jobs if it was related to Rachel." Michael too shared his thoughts.

"Yeah, once Frank gets fine, I am going to question him, how could he be careless while hiring that driver." James responded angrily.

"Grandpa, Frank was attacked too, please be lenient to him." Rachel requested him as she could see it was not Frank's fault.

"No Rachel, it is not a small thing, even Sam was attacked, thanks to him before being attacked he managed to alert you, can you think of the consequences if you were unaware of the attack and continued enjoying your music, that driver could have easily killed you. Only because you were aware of your surroundings he was not able to." Finally James shared what all he thought, earlier since Rachel was very angry he dared not say anything but now he saw she was fine so he told her what all he felt.

"Yeah, once Sam gets fine tomorrow, I'll personally go and thank him."

"Please do that"

"For tonight, I and Michael decided to stay here, is that fine with you all?" Anthony asked them.

"Of course grandpa, please don't seek permission like this." Rachel happily agreed as she too would feel better with more people at home.

"Is it fine if I too stay here for the night grandpa?" Daniel requested James and he agreed.

He asked Rachel to show Daniel the guest room, she was happy as she too wanted to be with him.

Late at night they all were still in the living room as none of them were feeling sleepy, when they were surprised by a visitor, Jimmy.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Anthony questioned his grandson who suddenly showed up at night.

"I called home and mom said you all are staying here for the night, so I too came here."