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 was naturally curious

get to know the

why he ended up following

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

school caused quite a lot of scandal

Apliaria was, perhaps, not as good

how the two

about each other to end up

spot at the school; this was also when they started talking

you don't recognize me?"

him, but it was

Rachel's

you

a few days

she was carrying and tipped his

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

at Roger, looking a little confused

memories, they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in

made no sense to

the original

be alright on my own," she politely declined

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

didn't have to say what he meant;

what do you mean by that?" she

Roger's eyes

spoken without thinking, and now it was too late for him to

that he knew she was

staring

Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just

find any other words to express

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

help but feel irritated

down, she

the same

just looked him up and down, her

the

was tranquil,

looked from the paused video on the computer screen

would you like to watch it again?"

already watched the

Victor's face was impassive.

was thinking, or to gauge

just as they'd been since the first

the video was paused on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting

left the

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

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

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

this as