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.

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

to get to know

was why he ended up following Rachel to the second

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

school caused quite a

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

how the two

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

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

much that you don't

was more out of courtesy than

Rachel's

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is

back a few days

bags she was carrying and tipped his

you heading home now? Would you like

a little confused at his

in fact they barely

no sense to

off, the original

thank you.I'll be alright on my own," she

all these things on your own, right?

him.He didn't have

you mean by

eyes

now it was too late for

that he knew

staring

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

couldn't find any other

not when she was

couldn't help but

Rachel was staring him down, she suddenly remembered his surname,

the same as

up and

Group, up in the CEO Office,

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

from the paused video on the computer screen

like to watch it again?"

watched the video

Victor's face was impassive.

impossible to tell what he was thinking, or to gauge

the screen, just as they'd been since

the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel,

left the video for Victor

maids had slandered Rachel behind her

reason Rachel had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan

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

this as