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 curious as to who this person

get to know the girl

following Rachel to the second best

school, but

attend the second best school caused quite a lot

was,

was how the two of them

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

in sharing the top spot at the school; this

changed so much that you

smiled at him, but it was

Rachel's friend,

abroad.Seeing you here is quite unexpected," she

got back a few days ago," Roger

glanced at the bags she was carrying and

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

little confused at his proposition.She couldn't understand

much as 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

made no sense

the original Rachel

be alright on my own," she politely declined

own, right? And it's

him.He didn't have to say what he

do you mean

Roger's eyes

now it was too

he knew

back, staring suspiciously at him the

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

find any

not when she was looking at him like he'd reveled

couldn't help but feel

staring him down, she suddenly

the

looked him up and down, her lips pouted in

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

overall impression of the office was that it was tranquil,

paused video on the computer screen to

would you like to watch it again?" he

the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

tell what he was thinking, or to gauge

as they'd been

of the dismissed

had collected the footage and left the video for

behind her

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

the maids degrade her further, both of

used this as