Trapped By Tainted Love

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.

lvy 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!' lvy thought, fuming.

She gritted her teeth and barked an order to the people behind her.

every single

the documents were stacked on a nearby desk and every single one

perfection and Ivy couldn't find a

is outrageous," Ivy murmured, looking a tad

to rest her eyes a bit as

complaining under her breath, though, she smiled and opened her

because you're too incapable of doing something doesn't necessarily mean others can't

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

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

she had been assigned this

twenty-two hours straight sorting

organization skills had been honed during the three years she had spent in

out all kinds of documents during her incarceration, so she had

wouldn't have been able to finish all that

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

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

up again, as she had failed spectacularly in her attempt

of the company needed all kinds of help from the

one assignment for a certain department, another one would come to give her a new

was that most of the documents they asked for had been stored in that room for many, many years, so it took Rachel a lot of

past week, she had only been back to the Bennet family's house once and stayed for only

Knock, knock, knock.

is a list

that so many times this week that it came

"Miss Bennet..."

like she had lost a

threatening

documents and

are

carrying

anything, though, her eyes betrayed her, letting

really worried

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

just a week and she looked tired

under her eyes were more prominent

days and I was worried.I