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

get to know the

up following Rachel to

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

school caused quite a lot of scandal at

was much talk that the best school in Apliaria was, perhaps, not as good

two of

same class, they knew enough about each other to end up in a friendly, ongoing competition for first

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

that you don't recognize me?"

smiled at him, but it was more out of courtesy

was Rachel's friend,

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is quite unexpected,"

few days

she was carrying and tipped his chin

home now? Would you like me

her eyebrows at Roger, looking a little confused

memories, they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact they barely knew each other that well, but here

made no

it off, the original Rachel

my own," she politely declined his

own, right? And

Rachel immediately narrowed her eyes at him.He didn't have to say what he

what do you mean by that?"

Roger's eyes

now it was

that he knew she

step back, staring suspiciously at him the entire

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 know

couldn't find any other words

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

but feel

staring him down, she suddenly remembered

was the same

up and down, her lips pouted

at the Sullivan Group, up in the

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

from the paused video on the computer screen to

you like to

watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

he was thinking, or to gauge his

just as they'd been since

of the dismissed maid shouting

footage and left the

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

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

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

as her last