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.

scored higher on the test than he had, he was naturally curious as to who this person

wanted to get to know the girl who

ended up following Rachel to the second

also have gone to the best school, but his curiosity about her got the better of

attend the second best school caused quite a lot of scandal at the

much talk that the best school in Apliaria was, perhaps, not as

the two of

they weren't in the same class, they knew enough about each other to end up in a

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

that you don't recognize me?" Roger asked,

was more out of courtesy

was Rachel's friend,

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is

few

was carrying

you buy so much food? Are you heading home now? Would you like me to give

raised her eyebrows at Roger, looking a little

in

made no sense

top it off, the original Rachel knew Roger;

thank you.I'll be alright on my own," she

own, right? And it's quite inconvenient for

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

mean by that?" she said

eyes widened in realization

spoken without thinking, and now it was

that he

step back, staring suspiciously at him the entire

the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned

but couldn't find

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

help but

was staring him down, she suddenly remembered

the

just looked him up and

Group, up in the CEO Office, tensions were starting to

the overall impression of the office was that it was

video on the computer

would you like to

already watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

impossible to tell what he was thinking, or

as they'd been since the first

paused on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by

the footage and left the video for Victor to

that the two maids had slandered Rachel behind her back, and had then provoked her

announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was

she had merely stood idly and let the maids degrade her further, both of them would

as her last