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.

were stacked on a nearby desk and every single one had passed the inspection.They had been sorted to perfection and Ivy

"This is outrageous,"

looking a tad

had decided to rest her eyes a bit as Ivy and

she heard Ivy complaining under her breath, though,

something doesn’t

to burst from anger.She gave Rachel a look full of hate and stormed out of

tiled floor became more and

she had been assigned this impossible task, Rachel hadn’t moved from her

twenty-two hours straight sorting

the three years she

of documents during her

the case, she wouldn’t have been able to finish all that work in

feeling heavier by the minute, so, unsurprisingly, she ended up falling asleep

that followed, to say that Rachel was busy in the archive

up again, as she had failed spectacularly in her attempt to humiliate

it seemed that all the departments of the company needed all kinds of help from the

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

been stored in that room for many, many years, so it took Rachel a lot of

hard that in the past week, she had only been back to the Bennet family’s house once and stayed for only a few minutes,

Knock, knock, knock.

Rachel called out in a hoarse voice, "There is a list on that

many times this week that it came out as a recorded message on

"Miss Bennet…"

had lost a lot of weight in just

the tears threatening to spill at the sight before

sorting documents and looked up

what are

walked in carrying

could say anything, though, her eyes betrayed her, letting

really

of those lucky people that had

a week and she looked tired to

circles under her eyes were more

you haven’t been home for two days

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

was the jewel of the Bennet family, born and raised

out for this harsh, exhausting