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.

check every single document in the boxes

stacked on a nearby

perfection and Ivy couldn't find

murmured, looking a tad

decided to rest her eyes a bit

under her breath, though, she smiled

because you're too incapable of doing something

ready to burst from anger.She gave Rachel a look full of hate and stormed out of

sound of her high heels on the tiled floor became more and

been assigned this impossible task, Rachel hadn't

straight sorting documents and writing yearly

organization skills had been honed during the three years she

documents during her incarceration, so she had come up

wouldn't have been able to finish all that work

by the minute, so, unsurprisingly, she ended up falling asleep right there on the

say that Rachel was busy in the archive

up again, as she had

of the company needed all kinds

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

that room for many, many years, so it took Rachel a lot

back to the Bennet family's house once and stayed for only a few minutes, just enough to shower and grab some

Knock, knock, knock.

up, Rachel called out in a hoarse voice, "There is a list on that basket over

it came out as a recorded message on

"Miss Bennet..."

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

eyes stung by the tears threatening

stopped sorting documents and

are you

walked in carrying a lunch

she could say anything, though, her eyes betrayed her, letting

was really

woman had always been thin, one of those lucky people

weight in just a week and she looked

circles under her eyes were more

haven't been home for two days