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

to know the girl

why he ended up following

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

decision to attend the second best school caused quite a lot of scandal

talk that the best school in Apliaria was, perhaps, not as good as it was made out to

the two of them

weren't in the same class, they knew enough about each other to end up

for them to take turns in sharing the top spot at the school; this

I changed so much that you don't recognize

but it was more out of

Rachel's

you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is

back a few days ago,"

was carrying and tipped his chin towards

so much food? Are you heading home now?

little confused at his proposition.She couldn't

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 a

made no sense to

the original Rachel knew Roger; not

you.I'll be alright on my own," she politely declined

on your own, right? And it's quite inconvenient for

narrowed her eyes at him.He didn't have

what do you mean by

watched as Roger's eyes widened in

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

he

took a step back, staring suspiciously at him the entire

Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned

but couldn't find any

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

help but feel

down, she suddenly remembered his

was the same

up and down, her lips

in the CEO Office,

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

from the paused video on the computer screen

would you like to watch

watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

what he was

on the screen, just as they'd been

of the dismissed

and left the video for Victor

that the two maids had slandered Rachel behind

reason Rachel had announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan

further, both of them would have surely suffered from

used this as her last