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,

know the girl who

up following

also have gone to the best school, but his

school caused quite a

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

the two of

knew enough about each other to end up

them to take turns in sharing the top spot at the

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

was more out

was Rachel's friend, not

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

got back a few days ago," Roger

glanced at the bags she was carrying and

so much food? Are you heading home now? Would

little confused at his proposition.She couldn't understand his

as much as 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

made no sense

off, the original Rachel knew Roger;

on my own,"

your own, right? And it's quite inconvenient for you now,

him.He didn't have to say

what do you mean by that?" she said

as Roger's eyes widened in realization

and now it was

knew that he knew she was

staring suspiciously

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

find any

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

help but feel irritated with

was staring him down, she suddenly remembered his

was the same as

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

up in the CEO Office,

that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel of fury hung

slowly looked from the paused video on the

to watch it again?" he

already watched the

Victor's face was impassive.

he was thinking, or

just as they'd been since the first playthrough of

dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by and did

had collected the footage and left

maids had slandered Rachel behind

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

further, both of them would have surely

as her last