Trapped By Tainted Love

"If you can't do it, I'll give someone else that position of yours," Victor said with a stern face.

After hearing him say that, the incumbent planning director's face paled.

Hurriedly, he said, "Mr.Sullivan, I promise I'll hand in a perfect proposal before you get off work today."

Afterwards, he hurried towards the door clumsily carrying all the documents.

Just when he was about to open the door of the office, lvan came in.

"Ivan," he greeted.

After that brief interaction, he walked out of the office without waiting for Ivan to respond.

From the corner of his eye, lvan could see that the planning director's back was drenched in sweat.

And seeing him bolt out of the room like a bat out of a cave, lvan was not surprised.

Victor was a perfectionist, and work was his top priority.

Not only was he strict with his own work, but he was also critical of his subordinates' performance.

He wouldn't allow the slightest mistakes at all.

Thus, people began to say that if someone were to get a job in the Sullivan Group, they would either be burned out or die from exhaustion due to Victor's obsession with perfection.

But even so, the company was one of the top five corporations in the world.

That reputation alone was alluring enough to make people willing to kill for a job there.

"Mr.Sullivan, the meeting with the American branch is about to start."

lvan handed in the documents needed to be checked and signed by Victor.

Victor opened one of the folders, and when he finished reading and was about to sign it, he suddenly remembered something that the planning director said earlier.

"What's going on in the archive room?" he asked.

"Since when did the planning department have so much time to waste sorting out tons of documents themselves? Tell Rachel that if she can't do her job, she should just resign immediately! The Sullivan Group has no room for useless employees!"

"Actually, Mr.Sullivan, Miss Bennet is sick.She hasn't been to work for two days," Ivan replied.

Indeed, Rachel was feeling under the weather.

Not long after she returned home that night, she collapsed on the sofa and fell asleep at once.

had cooked something for

the kitchen and was about to

and beads of sweat continuously ran down her

and instantly gleaned that Rachel had a high fever; her body was burning hot! Wasting no time, Abby called Andy while

Wake up! Miss

Abby but not enough to make out what she was talking about.She just thought that it was so noisy that she frowned and said in a hoarse

that, Rachel lost

woke up, it was already the next

of dawn, and a chilling breeze came

exhausted, Rachel instinctively touched her forehead, only to realize that there was a wet towel

up while removing the towel from

her eye, she found Abby sitting beside the

folded, and her face was resting

that Abby had fallen

of cold water beside

seen, it appeared as though Abby took care of her all night, and

like Abby was at peace

the blanket from her body and covered

moment Abby felt the blanket cover her, she woke

even though she had fallen asleep, she made sure not

You're

sat upright, her creased eyebrows

Rachel chuckled.

"Did I wake you?"

"No, ma'am, you didn't."

shook her head, sounding

any discomfort at all? Would you like something

my fever has gone down, and I've been sweeting a lot.I don't feel any discomfort, but I do feel a little feeble.Actually, I feel refreshed, thanks to

"That's great to hear!"

was saying that, she used a thermometer

temperature had returned to normal, Abby

me to death last night, Miss Bennet.When I came out of the kitchen, I saw you lying unconscious on the sofa, and you were

about that night before was how Victor forced her to drink an entire bottle of red wine, and that she threw up

bits and pieces of

with a fever on her way home, and that might be the

happened after that?"

and he arrived a few minutes later.You had a really high fever, and I wasn't strong enough to carry you.Mr.Torres was the one who carried you upstairs.I helped you ingest some antipyretics, and put a towel on your forehead to lower

took the towel from Rachel's

a box

she could ask where Andy was, something

medicine, and asked, "Abby, did you just say that...I took