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 curious as

to get to know

he ended up following Rachel

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

to attend the second best school caused quite

Apliaria was, perhaps, not as good as it was made

the two of

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

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

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

it was more out of

was Rachel's

you here is quite unexpected," she

got back a few days ago," Roger

at the bags she was carrying and tipped his chin towards

home now?

her eyebrows at Roger, looking a little confused at

so many years; in fact they barely knew

no sense to

it off, the original Rachel knew Roger; not

on my

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

eyes at him.He didn't have to say what

you mean by that?" she

Roger's eyes widened in

was too late for

that he

back, staring suspiciously at him

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

said, but couldn't find

was staring at him, not when she was looking at him like he'd

couldn't help but feel

him down, she suddenly remembered his

was the

just looked him up

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

that it was tranquil,

from the paused video on the computer screen to

to

watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

to tell what he was

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

scene of the dismissed

footage and left the video for

Rachel behind her back, and had then

the Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend herself, and

let the maids degrade her further, both of them would have surely suffered from whatever gossip would

this as her