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.

higher on the test than he had, he

know the

was why he ended up following Rachel

school, but his curiosity about her got the better

the second best school caused quite

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

how the two of them became

class, they knew enough about each other to end up in

sharing the top spot at the school; this was also

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

but it was

was Rachel's friend, not

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

back a few days ago,"

she was carrying and tipped his chin towards

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

at Roger, looking a little confused at his

they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact they barely knew each other that well, but here he

made no

the original Rachel knew Roger;

my own," she

carry all these things on your own, right? And

him.He didn't have to say what he meant;

mean by that?" she said

eyes widened

it was too late for him to

that he knew she

staring

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

couldn't find any other words to express

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

help but feel

down, she suddenly remembered

was the same

him up and down,

Group, up in the CEO Office,

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

the paused video on the computer

like to watch it

already watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

he was thinking, or

remained fixed on the screen, just as they'd been

of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel,

and left the video for

slandered Rachel behind her back, and had then provoked her until she'd lashed

Rachel had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's

idly and let the maids degrade her further, both of

this as