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,

know the girl who

following Rachel to the

also have gone to the best school, but

to attend the second best school caused quite a lot of

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

was how the two of

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

regular thing for them to take turns in sharing the top spot at the school; this was also when they started talking to each other

I changed so much that you don't recognize

at him, but it was more out of courtesy than anything

was Rachel's friend,

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is

back a few days

was carrying and

home now? Would you like me to

Roger, looking a little confused at his

Rachel's memories, they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact they

made no sense

off, the original Rachel

be alright on my own," she politely

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

him.He didn't have

you mean

as Roger's eyes widened

thinking, and now it was too late for him to fix

that he knew she was

took a step back, staring suspiciously at him the entire

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

said, but couldn't find any other words

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

couldn't help but

staring him down,

the same

silent.She just looked him up and down,

Sullivan Group, up in the CEO Office, tensions were starting

the office was that it was

looked from the paused video on the computer screen to

to

the video

Victor's face was impassive.

was impossible to tell what he was thinking, or to gauge his

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

scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel,

the footage and left the video

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

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

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

used this as her