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.

than he

to know the girl who had

up following Rachel to the

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

to attend the second best school caused quite

in Apliaria was,

the two of

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

top spot at the school; this was also

so much that you don't recognize me?" Roger

it was more out of

was Rachel's friend,

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

back a few

bags she was carrying and tipped his chin

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

eyebrows at Roger, looking a little confused at his

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

made no

the original Rachel knew Roger;

thank you.I'll be alright on my

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

what do you mean by

as Roger's eyes widened

spoken without thinking, and now it was

knew that he knew she was

step back, staring suspiciously at him

people who knew she was pregnant were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue

said, but couldn't find

she was looking at him like

help but

down, she suddenly remembered

the same as

up and down, her lips pouted in

at the Sullivan Group, up in the CEO

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

from the paused video on the computer screen

like to

watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

he was thinking, or to gauge

the screen, just as they'd

on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel,

the footage and left the video for

behind her

mother of the Sullivan Group's future

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

this as her last