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.

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

get to know

ended up following Rachel to the second

could also have gone to the best school, but

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

was, perhaps, not

how the two of them became

they knew enough about each other to end up in a friendly, ongoing

take turns in sharing the top spot at the

you don't recognize me?"

him, but it was more out of

was Rachel's friend, not

thought you'd gone abroad.Seeing you here is

few days ago,"

she was carrying and tipped his chin towards

buy so much food? Are you heading home now?

a little confused at his proposition.She couldn't understand

much as she could recall from Rachel's memories, they hadn't seen each other for so many years; in fact they barely knew

no

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be alright on my own,"

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

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

mean

eyes widened in realization and

without thinking, and now it was

knew that he knew

a step back, staring suspiciously at him the

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

find any other words

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

couldn't help but

staring him down, she suddenly remembered his

the

up

Group, up in the CEO Office, tensions were

the office was that it was tranquil, the

from the paused video on the

to watch it

already watched the video

Victor's face was impassive.

to tell what he was thinking, or to gauge

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

the scene of the dismissed maid shouting at Rachel, while Olivia stood by and

and left the

that the two maids had slandered Rachel behind her back, and had

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

further, both of them would have surely suffered from whatever gossip would have sprung

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