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.

the test than he had, he

know the girl who had beaten

was why he ended up following Rachel to

school, but his curiosity about her got the

caused quite a lot of scandal

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

was how the two

knew enough about each other to end up in a friendly, ongoing competition for

a regular thing for them to take turns in sharing the top spot at the

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

him, but it was more out of courtesy

Rachel's

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

few days ago," Roger

at the bags she was

buy so much food? Are you heading home now?

eyebrows 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 a ride with great

no sense to

original Rachel knew

on my own,"

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

immediately narrowed her eyes at him.He didn't have to

you mean

as Roger's eyes

and now it was

that he knew she

staring suspiciously at him

were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned from abroad; how did

but couldn't find any other words

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

but

Rachel was staring him down, she

the same

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

the Sullivan Group, up in the CEO

was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel of fury hung heavy

video on the computer

you like to

watched the

Victor's face was impassive.

to tell what he was thinking, or to gauge his

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

the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood

collected the footage and left the video for

maids had slandered Rachel behind her back, and had

the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was

further, both of them would have

as her