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.

than he had, he was naturally curious as to who this person

to know the girl who had

he ended up following Rachel to the

gone to the best school, but his curiosity

school caused quite a

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

the two of

each other to end up

sharing the top spot at the

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

at him, but it was more

was Rachel's friend,

gone abroad.Seeing you here is quite unexpected,"

few days

the bags she was carrying and tipped

home now? Would you

a little

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

made no sense to

top it off, the original Rachel knew

on my

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

eyes at him.He didn't have to

you mean by that?"

watched as Roger's eyes widened in

and now it was too late for

that he knew

took a step back, staring suspiciously at

were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger

find

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

couldn't help but feel irritated with

him down, she suddenly

the same

silent.She just looked him up and down, her lips pouted

up in the CEO Office,

impression of the office was that it was tranquil,

paused video

to watch

watched the video

Victor's face was impassive.

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

remained fixed on the screen, just as

the dismissed maid shouting at

footage and left the video for

that the two maids had slandered Rachel behind her

Rachel had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend herself, and the reputation of her

both of them would have

as