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 scored higher on the test than he had, he was naturally curious as to who this person

wanted to get to know the girl who had beaten

he ended up following Rachel

to the best school, but his curiosity about her got the better of

decision to attend the second best school caused

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

the two of them

about each other to end up in a friendly,

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

I changed so much that you

was more out of courtesy than

was Rachel's friend,

you here

few days ago,"

at the bags she was carrying and tipped his

food? Are you heading home now? Would you like me to

her eyebrows at Roger, looking a little confused at his proposition.She couldn't understand

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

made no sense to

it off, the original Rachel

be alright on my own,"

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 he meant; she already

what do you mean by

Roger's eyes widened in

thinking, and now it was too late for

that he knew she

back, staring suspiciously

pregnant were Caroline, Alice, Abby, Andy and the servants at the Sue Garden.Roger had just returned from abroad; how did

Roger said, but couldn't find any other

at him, not when she was looking at

help but feel

was staring him down, she suddenly remembered his surname,

was the

silent.She just looked him up

up in the CEO

the overall impression of the office was that it was tranquil, the oppressive feel

the paused video on the computer screen to

you like to

the

Victor's face was impassive.

he was thinking, or

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

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

left the video for Victor to

behind her back, and

that she was the mother of the Sullivan Group's future successor

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

used this as