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.

nearby desk and

"This is outrageous,"

looking a

bit

under her breath,

too incapable of doing something

to burst from anger.She gave Rachel a

floor became more

had been assigned this

spent twenty-two hours straight sorting documents and

been honed during the three years she had spent

of documents during her incarceration, so she had come up

wouldn’t have been able

exhausted, her eyes feeling heavier by the minute, so, unsurprisingly, she ended up falling asleep right there on the

week that followed, to say that Rachel was busy in the archive would be an

up again, as she had failed spectacularly in

seemed that all the departments of the company needed all

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

was that most of the documents they asked for had been stored in that room for

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

Knock, knock, knock.

list on that basket over there.Write down what you need, and I’ll

many times this week that it came out as

"Miss Bennet…"

she noticed that Rachel seemed like she had lost a lot of weight in just the few days they hadn’t

threatening to spill at the sight

sorting documents and looked up

what are you

in carrying

her eyes betrayed her, letting her tears

really

one of those lucky people that had trouble putting on weight even if they

had lost weight in just a week and she looked tired

under her eyes were

Miss Bennet, you haven’t been home for two days and I was worried.I

had no idea she

Bennet family,

out for this