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

a nearby desk and every single

to perfection and Ivy couldn't

murmured, looking a tad

decided to rest her eyes a bit as Ivy and the others were checking the

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

of doing something doesn't necessarily

a look full

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

been assigned this impossible task, Rachel

spent twenty-two hours straight sorting

honed during the three years she

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

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

was exhausted, her eyes feeling heavier by the minute, so, unsurprisingly, she ended up falling asleep

Rachel was

show up again, as she had failed spectacularly in

the company needed all kinds of help from the forgotten

department, another one would

asked for had been stored in that room for many, many years, so it took Rachel a

had only been back to the Bennet family's house once

Knock, knock, knock.

is a list on that basket over

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

"Miss Bennet..."

noticed that Rachel seemed like she had lost a lot of

by the tears threatening to

sorting documents and

are you

walked in carrying

her eyes

was really

always been thin, one of those lucky people that had trouble putting on weight even if they

she had lost weight in just a week and she looked tired to the

the dark circles under her eyes were more prominent

for two days and I was