Trapped By Tainted Love

"What did you say?"

A wide–eyed Alice snatched the examination paper from the interviewer‘s hand, looked at the marks at the top in disbelief.

"That‘s impossible.You must be mistaken! Full marks?" she muttered more to herself than the man across her.

"Miss Jenkins, these are Mr.Sullivan‘s answers.We have checked many times.These here are exactly the same with Miss Bennet‘s answers." The interviewer looked dumbfounded too, but the truth could not be denied.

Alice‘s eyes squinted in hatred.She couldn‘t help clenching the paper in her hand, wanting nothing more than to tear the damned thing in pieces.How could this be? Not one single person had managed to answer even one of these questions in the past five years.How could a stupid girl like Rachel get them all right? This was unheard of! Rachel turned to the interviewers.

"Is my interview over now?" she asked with a smirk.

The people before her were still in a daze, but Rachel‘s voice snapped them out of it.

"Yes, it‘s over," they said in unison, nodding.

"Did I pass?"

Rachel was still smiling as she looked at the interviewers with raised eyebrows.

"Well...yes, Miss Bennet.You did," one of the interviewers answered after swallowing hard.

"You need to come by tomorrow to sign the paperwork," he added.

"Great.I will see you tomorrow then,"

Rachel stood up with a smile glancing sideways at Alice.She started walking towards the door, but when she passed by Alice, she stopped and turned to look at her.

"Alice, it‘s not over between us.I will get revenge, even if it takes a long, long time."

Alice looked up ready to retort, but when she saw Rachel‘s smiling face, so in contrast with her cold, dark eyes, she seemed at a loss for words.

Under that piercing gaze, she felt a shiver run down her spine.

Trying to look braver than she felt, she finally managed a retort.

"Oh, Rachel, don’t be so smug! So what if you are now an employee of the Sullivan Group? You may get yourself in, but it is still in my power to kick you out with a snap of my fingers."

Rachel rolled her eyes and chuckled.

Alice‘s smile was wiped clean off her face, as she couldn‘t help but feel a sense of dread at her opponent‘s carefree attitude.

Rachel had changed so much that Alice didn‘t know what she may try next.

Rachel nodded to the interviewers, ignoring Alice altogether, and left the Sullivan Group‘s building.

the phone and walked into the study with a serious expression on

look,

"What‘s the matter?"

I just received the results from Miss Bennet‘s

he didn‘t know

"Rachel‘s interview?"

"I am pretty sure that I know already.It must be

apprehensive as he started to mutter

"But..."

that you are actually concerned about Rachel," Victor said, raising his eyes to look searchingly at

a line there.My apologies," Ivan answered and lowered his eyes to the

but still he went on

book my airplane ticket for

sir," Ivan replied, still looking a

family‘s house back

"Cheers!"

up and clinked

sitting on her chair, Rachel simply raised

as excited

and Abby, already used to Rachel‘s lack of enthusiasm for almost everything, simply raised their glasses at her and kept

have to go to the Sullivan Group and report for duty tomorrow, there will be no wine today.Anyway, I’d

and downed all the

Abby said and drank up her

fondly at

"Thank you."

stood up hastily and said, "I‘ve baked some of the bread you like so much.Let me just check

walked into the kitchen, leaving Rachel alone with

another glass of water and looked

question these days,"

I got the information about that

guess what was on Andy‘s

days, but he didn‘t want

held his doubt secret, until that

don‘t have to tell me, though.Not unless you want to, Miss Bennet," Andy

I do

shot back and took a

lucky actually.A friend of mine happens to know

"That‘s all?"

the

eyebrows and nodded.She drummed her fingers on the table and

to save the Bennet Group.You should know by now that I‘m really no good