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.

had scored higher on the test than he had,

to get to know

was why he ended up following Rachel to the second best

school, but his curiosity about her

school caused quite a lot

was, perhaps, not as good as it was made out to

was how the two of

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

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

much that you don't

but it was more out of courtesy than anything

was Rachel's friend,

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is quite

got back a few

the bags she was

you heading home now? Would you like me

at Roger, looking a little confused at his proposition.She couldn't

so many years; in fact they barely knew each other that well, but

no sense

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

you can't carry all these things on your own, right? And it's quite inconvenient

didn't

what do you mean by

eyes widened in

spoken without thinking, and now it was too

knew that he

staring suspiciously at him the

who knew she was pregnant were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had

said, but couldn't find any other words

him, not when she was looking

but feel irritated

down, she suddenly

was the

silent.She just looked him up and down, her lips

at the Sullivan Group, up in the CEO

overall impression of the office was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel of fury

from the paused video on the computer

to watch it again?" he

watched the

Victor's face was impassive.

was

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

of the dismissed maid shouting

collected the footage and left the

behind her back, and had

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

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

as