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.

heard that someone had scored higher on the test than he had, he was naturally curious

wanted to get to know the girl who had beaten

he ended up following

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

caused quite

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

two of them

they knew enough about each other to end

take turns in sharing the top spot at the school; this was also when

much that you don't recognize me?"

but it was more out of courtesy than

was Rachel's friend, not

abroad.Seeing you here is quite unexpected," she

back a few days ago,"

bags she was carrying and

you heading home

raised her eyebrows at Roger, looking a little confused at his

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

no

the original Rachel knew Roger; not

my own,"

can't carry all these things on your own, right? And it's quite inconvenient for you now,

didn't have to say what he meant;

you mean

as Roger's eyes widened in realization and

and now it was too late for him to fix

knew that he

step back, staring suspiciously at him the entire

only people who knew she was pregnant were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned from abroad; how did he

said, but couldn't find any other words to

she was staring at him, not when she was looking at him like he'd reveled one of her

couldn't help but feel irritated

Rachel was staring him down, she suddenly remembered his

the

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

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

overall impression of the office was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel of fury hung heavy in the

looked from the paused video on the computer

like to

the

Victor's face was impassive.

to tell what he was thinking, or to

screen, just as they'd been

the video was paused on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by and did

had collected the footage and left the

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

Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend herself,

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

as her last