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 had, he was naturally

know the

was why he ended up following Rachel

have gone to the best school, but his curiosity about

school caused quite a

was, perhaps, not as

two of them

about each other to end up in a

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

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

him, but it was

was Rachel's friend,

you here is quite unexpected,"

back a few days ago," Roger

at the bags she was carrying

heading home now? Would you like me to give you

little

many years; in

made no

the original

on my own," she politely declined

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

didn't have to say what he meant; she

mean by that?" she

watched as Roger's eyes widened

and now it was too late for him

he

step back, staring suspiciously at

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

find any other words

she was staring at him, not when she was

couldn't help but

was staring him down, she suddenly remembered his

was the same as

remained silent.She just looked him up

Group, up in the CEO

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

paused video on the computer

like to watch

watched the

Victor's face was impassive.

he was thinking, or to

the screen, just as

scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while

collected the footage and left the video

two maids had slandered Rachel behind

announced that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend herself, and the reputation of her

she had merely stood idly and let the maids degrade her further, both of them

used this as her