Cheat With My Boyfriend Best Friend

You Will Regret it

Nick and I stared at the unresponsive liquid in the flask in front of me.

We’d been working on this experiment for almost half a year. All of my materials came directly from the lab’s budget, and I had just poured the reagent from my test tube into the wrong flask…

“Olive,” Nick swallowed. His voice was incredibly low. “You just poured the Z solvent into it, didn’t you?

“I did…” My mouth was dry, and I glanced at the tube in my hand labeled ‘Z! There was still some of the light blue liquid left inside.

“And it’s not reacting?” Nick’s voice grew even quieter like he was about to evaporate on the spot.

“It’s not…” I stared at the flask, expecting it to explode in the next second, but nothing happened. There were no bubbles, no discoloration, nothing. “It’s stable… It… Oh my g*d!”

“You did it!” Nick screamed, “You found it! You’re amazing! A literal angel!”

Nick’s mouth was overflowing with compliments, and I never realized there were so many positive words in the dictionary. Every bit of his praise was absorbed into my skin like fine wine.

I made it.

I found it.

Nick threw his arms around me and we both squealed like children.

were inevitably drawn to the noise we were making. I’d never seen this many people in the lab before,

like I just won the Nobel Peace

needed a dose of excitement to break up their monotonous research

“Congratulations, Dr. Woods.”

was here to congratulate me. He was a jolly old man who was as kind as a teddy bear, but today, his

him. “I’m so glad you’re

have you on my team, Olive.” He laughed. “I s*atched you up from a

his tongue. “You’re not the only one with a

was he talking

My heart sank.

the drunken man ignored me. He clinked a test tube on the table as if he was

his throat, satisfied once all

celebrate this woman, Dr. Olive Woods, for her incredible breakthrough. She’s solved a

fellow researchers w*ooped and

come easily. There was

her personal life, she’s also reached a wonderful

The cheers grew louder.

I saw the big projector screen in the lab start playing a video of my proposal. Vincent’s face looked so different on

screaming and clapping like they were the ones who’d

surprise?” Nick was breathing heavily

What a surprise… How did you know?” I smiled through clenched teeth. With the video looping on the screen,