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.

on the test than he had, he was naturally curious as to who this

get to know the girl who had beaten

why he ended up following Rachel to

best school, but his curiosity about her got the

school caused

talk that the best school in Apliaria was, perhaps, not

was how the two of them became

in the same class, they knew enough about each other to end

in sharing the top spot at the

I changed so much that you don't

was more out of

Rachel's friend, not

you'd gone abroad.Seeing you

got back a few

the bags she was carrying and tipped his chin towards

food? Are you heading home now? Would you like me to give you

Roger, looking a little confused at his

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

no

off, the original Rachel

be alright on my own," she politely declined

your own, right? And it's quite inconvenient

at him.He didn't

what do you mean by

eyes widened

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

knew that he knew

a step back, staring suspiciously at

was pregnant were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger

but couldn't find any other words to express

when she was looking at him like he'd reveled one of her biggest

but feel irritated with

was staring him down, she suddenly

the same

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

Group, up in the CEO Office, tensions were

office was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel of

paused video on

would you like to watch it again?" he

the

Victor's face was impassive.

was impossible to tell what he was

eyes remained fixed on the screen, just as they'd

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

had collected the footage and left

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

was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend herself,

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

used this as her