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 as to who this person

to get to know the

he ended up following Rachel

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

the second best school caused quite a lot of scandal at the

school in Apliaria was, perhaps, not as

how the two

the same class, they knew enough about each other to

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

you

smiled at him, but it was more out of courtesy than

was Rachel's friend,

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here

a few days

was carrying and tipped his

heading home now?

raised her eyebrows at Roger, looking a little confused at his proposition.She

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 was offering her

no sense

original

alright on my own," she politely declined

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

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

you mean by

eyes widened in realization and

spoken without thinking, and now it was

knew that he knew she was

a step back, staring suspiciously

pregnant were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the

said, but couldn't find any

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

couldn't help but feel

Rachel was staring him down, she suddenly

was the same as

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

the Sullivan Group, up in the

was

the paused video on the

you like to watch it again?" he

the video

Victor's face was impassive.

to tell what he was thinking, or to gauge his

remained fixed on the screen, just as they'd been since the first

on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia

and left the video

slandered Rachel behind her back, and

Rachel had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to

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

as her last