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.

on the test than he had, he was

get to know the girl who had beaten

up following

also have gone to the best school, but his curiosity

second best school caused

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

was how the two of

knew enough about each other to

take turns in sharing the top spot

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

at him, but it was

was Rachel's

gone abroad.Seeing you here is quite

got back a few days ago," Roger

the bags she was carrying and tipped

Are you heading home now? Would you like me to give

at Roger, looking a little confused at

she could recall from Rachel's memories, they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact they barely knew each other that well, but here he was offering her

made no

top it off, the original

alright on my own," she

carry all these things on your own, right? And it's quite inconvenient

at him.He didn't have to say what

you mean by

as Roger's eyes widened in

now it was too late

knew that he knew she was

back, staring suspiciously at him the entire

and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned from abroad; how

Roger said, but couldn't find any other words

way she was staring at him, not when she was looking at him like

help but feel

down, she

the

just looked him up and down,

Sullivan Group, up in the CEO

office was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel

slowly looked from the paused video on the computer screen to

to watch it again?"

the video

Victor's face was impassive.

tell what he was thinking, or to gauge his

just as they'd been since

the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel,

collected the footage and left the video

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

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

and let the maids degrade her further, both of them

used this as her