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.

Roger had heard that someone had scored higher on the test than he had, he

to get to know the girl who had

was why he ended up following Rachel

gone to the best school, but his curiosity about her got the better of

to attend the second best school caused quite a lot of scandal at

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

how the two

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

a regular thing for them to take turns in sharing the top spot at the school; this was also when they started talking to

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

him, but it was more out of

Rachel's

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

a few days ago,"

bags she was carrying and

heading home

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

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

made no

original Rachel knew

my own," she politely

things on your own, right? And it's

Rachel immediately narrowed her eyes at him.He didn't have to say what he

what do you mean

watched as Roger's eyes widened in realization

it was too late for

he knew she was

took a step back, staring suspiciously at him the

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

said, but couldn't find any other words

him, not when she was looking at him like

couldn't help but feel irritated with

down, she suddenly

the same

silent.She just looked him up and down, her

at the Sullivan Group, up in the CEO Office, tensions were starting

the office was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel of

video on the computer screen

would you like to watch it

already watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

to tell what he was thinking, or to

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

the video was paused on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by and did

collected the footage and left

behind her back, and had then

Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend herself,

stood idly and let the maids degrade her further, both of them would

used this as