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.

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

made me feel like I just won the Nobel

needed a dose of excitement to break

“Congratulations, Dr. Woods.”

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

“I’m so glad

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

holding a can of beer, came over and stuck out his tongue. “You’re not the only one with

What was he

My heart sank.

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

throat, satisfied once all eyes were on

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

group of my fellow researchers

didn’t come easily. There

personal life, she’s also reached

The cheers grew louder.

the lab start playing a video of my proposal. Vincent’s face looked so

and clapping like they were the

Nick was breathing heavily when he

know?” I smiled through clenched teeth. With the video looping on the screen, I had no way to