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.

had heard that someone had scored higher on the test than he had, he was naturally curious

wanted to get to know

ended up following Rachel

could also have gone to the best school, but

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

school in Apliaria was, perhaps, not

two of them became

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

sharing the top spot at the school; this was also when they started talking to

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

smiled at him, but it was

Rachel's friend, not

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

a few days ago," Roger

was carrying and tipped his

home now? Would you like me to give

little confused at his proposition.She couldn't understand

each other for so many years; in fact they barely knew each other that well,

made no sense to

it off, the original Rachel knew

on my own,"

your own, right?

her eyes at him.He didn't have to

what do you mean by that?"

as Roger's eyes

now it was too late for

knew that he knew she was

step back, staring suspiciously at him the entire

servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned from abroad; how

Roger said, but couldn't find any

she was looking at him like he'd reveled one

help but feel irritated

down, she

the same as

him up and down, her lips

in the CEO Office, tensions were starting

was that it was tranquil, the

looked from the paused video on the computer

like to watch it

watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

he was thinking, or to gauge his next

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

the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel,

the footage and left

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

mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to

merely stood idly and let the maids degrade her further, both

as