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.

someone had scored higher on the test than he had,

to know the girl who had

following Rachel to

have gone to the best school, but his curiosity about

best school caused quite a lot of

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

the two of them

they weren't in the same class, they knew enough about each other to end up in a friendly, ongoing competition for first

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

changed so much that you don't recognize me?" Roger

was more out of

Rachel's

you here is quite

a few

bags she was carrying and

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

at Roger, looking a little confused

as she could recall from Rachel's memories, they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact

no sense to

the original Rachel knew Roger;

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

your own, right? And

her eyes at him.He didn't have to say what he meant; she already

do you mean by

as Roger's eyes widened in realization

was too late for him to

that he knew

staring suspiciously

the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger

find any other words to express

when she

help but feel

Rachel was staring him down, she

the same as

him up and down, her

at the Sullivan Group, up in the CEO Office, tensions

overall impression of the office was that it was tranquil,

slowly looked from the paused video on

like to watch

watched the

Victor's face was impassive.

was thinking, or to gauge

eyes remained fixed on the screen, just as they'd been since the first playthrough

video was paused on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by and did

collected the footage and left

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

only reason Rachel had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend

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

this as