Captivation: Want Nothing But You

Rachel was stuck in the archive room all night long.

When the clock struck nine the next morning, a group of people including Ivy thundered into the room.

Ivy put her hands on her waist as she said, "Time is up.I need those materials right now!"

The smug smile on her face showed that she was sure Rachel wouldn’t have completed her task.Rachel stifled a yawn and pointed to the nearest corner.

"They’re right there," she said in a flat tone.

Ivy turned to look at the corner and saw two middle-sized cartons.

As they were not sealed yet, she could see they were full to the brim.

The smile froze on Ivy’s face.

This couldn’t be! That kind of workload would take three people a week to finish.

How could Rachel tackle it in such a short time? She glared at Rachel.

"That’s impossible! How did you finish all that so quickly?"

Rachel leaned back and crossed her arms.She looked at Ivy with one eyebrow raised.

"So you are aware that the task you assigned me was too much for such a short deadline?"

Her voice was light, as if they were having a friendly conversation.

Ivy looked stunned for a moment and just a little bit guilty.

She snapped out of it quickly though and retorted, her voice raised as if that could make her seem more confident.

"Nonsense.It was just a figure of speech.Anyway, you’re not fooling anyone.Do you think you can just stuff random documents into the boxes? I will check them all, one by one.If I find anything amiss, I will report you to Mr.Sullivan! Then you can kiss your job goodbye!"

"Be my guest," Rachel replied, shrugging and waving her hand towards the boxes.

Seeing Rachel so calm and composed, Ivy was on high alert.She had endured the disdain and contempt of the upstairs employees too long.

It wasn’t easy to get out of this depressing, underground archive room and finally have the authority to order someone- Rachel, that is – around, just like everyone else had done to her before.

‘Rachel should just be a good dog and do as I say!’ Ivy thought, fuming.She gritted her teeth and barked an order to the people behind her.

stacked on a nearby desk and every single one

"This is outrageous,"

looking a

had decided to rest her eyes a bit as

breath, though, she smiled and

too incapable of doing something doesn’t necessarily mean

from anger.She gave Rachel a look

of her high heels on the tiled floor became more and more distant, triumph flashed

this impossible

twenty-two hours straight sorting documents and

during the three

kinds of documents during her incarceration, so she had come up with

she wouldn’t have been able to finish all that

the minute, so, unsurprisingly, she ended up falling asleep

Rachel was busy in the archive would

didn’t show up again, as she had failed spectacularly in her

departments of the company needed all kinds

finished one assignment for a certain department, another one would come to give her

the documents they asked for had been stored in that room for many, many years, so it took Rachel

been back to the Bennet family’s house once and stayed for only a few minutes, just enough to

Knock, knock, knock.

Rachel called out in a hoarse voice, "There is a list on that basket over there.Write down what you need, and I’ll check it

times this week that it came out as a

"Miss Bennet…"

lost a lot of weight in just the few days they hadn’t

by the tears threatening to spill at the sight before

and looked up in

what are you

carrying a lunch

her eyes betrayed her, letting her

was really worried

lucky people that had trouble putting

just a week

dark circles under

haven’t been home for two days and I was

Abby had decided to visit Rachel at work, she had no idea she would find her in such a

of the Bennet family, born and raised in

out for