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 he had, he was naturally curious

wanted to get to know the

following

but his curiosity about her got the better

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

was,

two of them became

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

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

that you

him, but it was more out of courtesy

Rachel's friend, not

you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here

got back a few days

was carrying and tipped his chin

you heading home now? Would you like me

Roger, looking a little confused

they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact they barely knew each other that well, but here he was offering her a

no sense to

top it off, the original Rachel knew Roger; not

alright on my own," she politely declined

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

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

what do you mean

as Roger's eyes widened in realization and

thinking, and now it was too late for him to

that he knew

back, staring suspiciously at him

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 was

but couldn't find any other words to

when she was looking at him like he'd reveled one of her biggest

couldn't help but feel irritated with

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

was the

looked him up and down, her lips pouted in

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

office was that it was tranquil,

looked from the paused video on the

would you like to watch it again?" he

already watched the video three

Victor's face was impassive.

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

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

of the dismissed maid

had collected the footage and left the video for Victor

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

mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor was to defend

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

used this as her last