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, he was naturally

know the girl

ended up following Rachel to

school, but his curiosity

school caused quite a lot of scandal at the

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

the two

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

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

I changed so much that you don't recognize

him, but it was

Rachel's

gone abroad.Seeing you here is quite

back a few days ago," Roger

was carrying and tipped

home now? Would you

little confused at his proposition.She couldn't understand

from Rachel's memories, they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact they barely knew

made no sense

the original Rachel knew

on my own,"

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

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

do you mean by

as Roger's eyes widened

was too late

he

took a step back, staring

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

said, but couldn't find

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

couldn't help but feel

him down, she suddenly remembered

was the same as

him up and

Group, up in the CEO Office, tensions were starting to

office was that it was

paused video on the computer screen

like to watch

watched the

Victor's face was impassive.

was thinking, or

eyes remained fixed on the screen, just as

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

had collected the footage and left the video

Rachel behind her back,

had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to

she had merely stood idly and let the maids degrade her further, both of them would have surely suffered from whatever

as her last