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.

noise we were making. I’d never seen

made me feel like I just won the

needed a dose of excitement to

“Congratulations, Dr. Woods.”

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

him. “I’m so

to have you on my team, Olive.” He laughed. “I s*atched you up from a million other competitors. I’ve never been

tongue. “You’re not the only one with a good eye, Julian! Another lucky man picked

was he talking

My heart sank.

gave Nick a desperate look, silently telling him to shut up, but the drunken man ignored me. He clinked a test tube on the table

everyone.” Nick cleared his throat, satisfied

Olive Woods, for her incredible breakthrough. She’s solved a puzzle that our lab has been working on

group of my fellow researchers w*ooped and

didn’t come easily. There

reached a

The cheers grew louder.

proposal. Vincent’s face looked so different on the screen. The moment he got down on one knee,

and clapping like they were the ones who’d just gotten

like the surprise?” Nick was breathing heavily when he spoke to me. “Congratulations again,

surprise… How did you know?” I smiled through clenched teeth.