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.

test than

to know

ended up following Rachel

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

second best school caused quite a

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

was how the two

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

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

him, but it was more

Rachel's

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is

a few

she was carrying and tipped his

home now? Would you like me

at Roger, looking a little confused at his proposition.She

each other for so many years; in fact they

made no

top it off, the original Rachel

thank you.I'll be alright on my own," she politely declined his

carry all these things on your own, right? And it's quite

her eyes at him.He didn't have to say what he meant;

you mean by that?" she said

Roger's eyes widened in realization and

spoken without thinking, and now it was too late

that he

staring suspiciously at him the

were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned

Roger said, but couldn't find any other words

she was staring at him, not when she was looking at

couldn't help but feel

Rachel was staring him down, she suddenly remembered his surname,

was the

looked him up and down,

the CEO Office,

impression of the office was that it was tranquil,

video on the computer

to watch it again?"

the video

Victor's face was impassive.

he was thinking, or to

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

dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by and did

left

Rachel behind her back, and had then

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

her further, both of them would have surely suffered from

used this as