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 had, he

know the girl

following Rachel to the second best

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

school caused quite

best school in Apliaria was, perhaps, not as good

was how the two of them

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

regular thing for them to take turns in sharing the top spot

you don't recognize me?" Roger asked, chuckling

at him, but it was more out

was Rachel's friend,

abroad.Seeing you here is

few

glanced at the bags she was carrying and tipped

you heading home now? Would you like me to give

raised her eyebrows at Roger, looking a little confused at his

many years; in fact they barely knew each other that well, but here he was

made no

the original Rachel knew Roger;

be alright on my own," she politely declined his

all these things on your own,

Rachel immediately narrowed her eyes at him.He didn't have to say what he

what do you mean by

Roger's eyes

and now it was

that he knew she was

staring suspiciously at him the

only people who knew she was pregnant were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned from abroad; how did he know she

find any other

she was looking at him like he'd reveled one

but feel irritated with

down, she suddenly remembered his surname,

was the same as

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

in the CEO Office, tensions were starting

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

from the paused video on

to watch

watched the video

Victor's face was impassive.

tell what he was thinking,

just as they'd been

paused on the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by and

and left the video for Victor to

Rachel behind her back,

mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was

and let the maids degrade her further, both of them would have surely

used this as her