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.

and check every single document in the boxes meticulously.Twenty minutes later, the documents were stacked on a nearby desk and every single one had passed the inspection.They had been sorted to perfection and Ivy couldn’t

"This is outrageous,"

looking a tad

had decided to rest her eyes a bit as Ivy

she heard Ivy complaining under her breath, though, she smiled and

too incapable of doing something doesn’t necessarily

from anger.She gave Rachel a look full of

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

been assigned this impossible task,

straight sorting documents and writing yearly

during the

out all kinds of documents

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

heavier by the minute, so, unsurprisingly, she ended up

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

that Ivy didn’t show up again, as

departments of the company needed all kinds of help

department, another

asked for had been stored in that room for many, many years, so

hard that in the past week, she had only been back to the Bennet family’s house

Knock, knock, knock.

a hoarse voice, "There is a list on that

that so many times this week that it came out as a

"Miss Bennet…"

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

by the tears threatening

and looked up

are you

carrying

her eyes

was really worried

woman had always been thin, one of those lucky people that had trouble putting on weight

a week and she looked tired

pale and the dark circles under her eyes were

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

visit Rachel at work, she had no idea she would

was the jewel of the Bennet

for