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.

to obey and check every single document in

later, the documents were stacked on a nearby desk and every single

sorted to perfection and Ivy couldn't find a single flaw

outrageous," Ivy murmured,

bit as Ivy and the others were

breath, though, she smiled and opened

of doing something doesn't necessarily mean others can't do

gave Rachel a look full of hate and stormed out of the

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

this impossible task, Rachel

sorting documents and writing yearly

skills had been honed during the three

practice sorting out all kinds of documents during her incarceration, so she had come up with an efficient

have been able to finish all that work in just

exhausted, her eyes feeling heavier by the minute, so,

Rachel was busy in the archive

side was that Ivy didn't show up again, as she had failed

departments of the company needed all

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

room for many, many years, so it took Rachel a lot of time to dig

had been working so hard that in the past week, she had only been back to the Bennet

Knock, knock, knock.

called out in a hoarse voice, "There is a list on that basket over there.Write down what you need, and I'll check it out

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

"Miss Bennet..."

stood at the door, she noticed that Rachel seemed like she had lost a lot of weight in just the few days they hadn't seen each

by the tears threatening to spill at the sight before

documents and looked up in

what are

walked in carrying

anything, though, her eyes betrayed her, letting

was really

one of those lucky people that had trouble putting on weight even if they wanted

weight in just a week and she looked tired

circles under her

two days and I was worried.I made you