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

to know the girl who had

he ended up following Rachel to the

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

decision to attend the second best school caused

school in Apliaria was,

was how the two of them

same class, they knew enough about each other to end up in a friendly, ongoing

take turns in sharing the top spot at the school; this

I changed so much that you don't recognize

at him, but it was more

Rachel's friend, not

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

few days ago,"

she was carrying and tipped

did you buy so much food? Are you heading home now? Would you

a little confused at his proposition.She

they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact they barely knew each other that

made no sense to

the original Rachel

my own," she politely

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

at him.He didn't have

do you mean by that?" she said

as Roger's eyes widened in realization

now it was too late for him to fix

he knew she was

a step back, staring suspiciously at him the entire

people who knew she was pregnant were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at

find

when she was looking at him like he'd

couldn't help but feel irritated

was staring him down,

was the same

looked him up and down, her

Group, up in the

of the office was that it was

slowly looked from the paused video on the

to watch it again?" he

the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

was impossible to tell what he was thinking, or to gauge

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

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

collected the footage and left

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

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

further, both of them would have surely suffered from whatever gossip would

used this as her last