Captivation: Want Nothing But You

Carson slowed his car and narrowed his eyes at the man.He remembered seeing him before, it was just taking him a little while to remember his name.

"Isn't he one of the children from the Jimenez family? What is his name again?" he murmured to himself.

The man in question was Roger.He came to stand in front of Rachel with a warm smile, and said in a gentle voice, "Long time no see, Rachel."

Rachel looked up at him in confusion.She had a feeling she knew who he was; she just couldn't remember.

"You're…" she trailed off as a gust of strong wind blew, splashing raindrops against her face and clothes.

She blinked away the water and in that instance, she remembered.

"Roger, right?" she said with a small frown.

There had always been a saying in the business world of Apliaria, "When a Sullivan met a Jimenez, there was bound to be a tug-of-war."

Both families were powerful, with years of deep history and solid foundations.

Roger was the perfect idea of what a successor of the Jimenez family should be.

Even though Roger and Victor had very little dealings with each other, people often compared the two families.

It wasn't because they were rivals; it was because of the different paths in life that each had taken.

Victor had been an illegitimate child, born out of wedlock.

His mother had passed away when he was very young, leaving him in the care of his grandmother.

When he'd been growing up, he was very rarely seen at social occasions held by the upper-class families.

At the age of 14, he'd been sent to study abroad.

In direct contrast, Roger was seen as a golden child.

Growing up, he'd had the best of the best in everything.He'd had the best education, the best care, and a good family life.

He'd been a valued, respected member of society, and by the time he'd become a man, people always referred to him as a perfect gentleman.

Roger and Rachel knew each other because they'd attended the same high school.

They'd taken the Senior High School Entrance Examination in the same year, around about the same time, and Rachel had scored 0.5 points higher than Roger.

She was the highest ranked student in Apliaria that year.She could have attended any school she liked; including the first-rank senior high school.

And she probably would have, if it hadn't been for Alice.

Alice had applied too late and was put on the waiting list, behind the last applicant to the school.

Caroline and Alice tried just about everything to get her into the school.

They even went so far as to play on Rachel's emotions and persuade her to give up her place to Alice.

In the end, Rachel had agreed.

She gave up her spot and chose to attend the second best high school in Apliaria.

Roger had heard that someone had scored higher on the test than he had, he was naturally

know the girl who

he ended up following Rachel to

gone to the best school, but his curiosity

attend the second best school caused quite a lot of

was much talk that the best school in Apliaria was, perhaps,

two of them became

each

for them to take turns in sharing the top spot at the school; this was also when they started talking to each other

you don't recognize

was more out of courtesy

Rachel's friend, not

abroad.Seeing you

few days ago," Roger

at the bags she was

heading home now? Would

a little confused at his proposition.She couldn't

in fact they barely knew each other that well, but here he was offering her

no sense

the original Rachel knew Roger;

alright on my

things on your own, right? And it's quite inconvenient for

Rachel immediately narrowed her eyes at him.He didn't have to

you mean

Roger's eyes widened in

and now it was too late for him to fix

knew that he

a step back, staring suspiciously at him the

at the

couldn't find any

way she was staring at him, not when she was looking at him like he'd reveled one of her

couldn't help but feel

Rachel was staring him down, she suddenly remembered his surname,

the same as

just looked him up and down, her lips

the CEO Office,

office was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel

video on the computer

you like to watch it

watched the

Victor's face was impassive.

what he was thinking, or

just as they'd been since the first

video was paused on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia

footage and left the video

that the two maids had slandered Rachel behind her

had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend herself, and the

idly and let the maids degrade her further, both of them would have surely suffered from whatever gossip would

this as her last