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.

hurried to obey and check every single document in

on a nearby desk and every single one had passed

had been sorted to perfection and Ivy couldn't find

is outrageous," Ivy murmured, looking a

bit as Ivy and the others were checking

breath, though, she smiled and opened her

doing something doesn't necessarily mean

gave Rachel a look full of

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

been assigned this impossible task,

spent twenty-two hours straight sorting

skills had been honed during the three years she

kinds of documents

that wasn't the case, she wouldn't have been able to finish all

minute, so,

to say that Rachel

again, as she had

it seemed that all the departments of the company needed

finished one assignment for a certain department, another one would come to

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

been working so hard that in the past week, she had only been 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.

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

that it came out as a

"Miss Bennet..."

like she had lost a lot of weight in just the few

the tears threatening to spill at the sight before

stopped sorting documents and looked

what are you doing

in carrying a

her eyes betrayed her, letting her tears

was really worried

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

weight in just a week and she

under her eyes

two days and I was