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.

than he had, he was naturally curious

know the girl

up following Rachel

also have gone to the best school, but his

school caused quite a lot

best school in Apliaria was, perhaps, not as good as

was how the two

enough about each other to end up in a friendly, ongoing

thing for them to take turns in sharing the top spot at

much that you

at him, but it was more out of courtesy than anything

was Rachel's friend, not

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is quite unexpected," she

back a few days

the bags she was

Are you heading home now? Would you

her eyebrows at Roger, looking a little confused at his proposition.She

seen each other for so many years; in fact they barely

no sense to

off, the original

my

these things on your own, right? And it's quite inconvenient for you now, isn't

him.He didn't

mean by

watched as Roger's eyes widened in

now it was

knew that he knew she

back, staring

at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned from abroad; how did he know she

Roger said, but couldn't find any

him, not when she was looking at him

but

down, she

was the same as

up and down, her

up in the CEO Office, tensions

impression of the office was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel of fury hung heavy in

paused video on the computer screen to

like to watch

already watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

to tell what he was thinking, or to gauge his next

screen, just as they'd been since the first playthrough of the

was paused on the scene of the dismissed

the footage and left

evidence that the two maids had slandered Rachel behind

the Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend herself, and the reputation of

her further, both of them would have surely suffered from

as