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

made me feel like I

needed a dose of excitement to break up their

“Congratulations, Dr. Woods.”

Even my mentor, the head of the lab, was here to congratulate me. He was a jolly old man who was as kind as a teddy bear, but today, his smile

so glad you’re

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

over and stuck out his tongue. “You’re not the only one with

What was he

My heart sank.

shut up, but the drunken man ignored me. He clinked a test tube on the table as if he was ready to

throat, satisfied once all eyes

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

fellow researchers w*ooped

easily. There

also reached a wonderful

The cheers grew louder.

playing a video of my proposal. Vincent’s face looked so different on the screen. The moment he got

clapping like they were the ones who’d just

was breathing heavily when he spoke to me.

did you know?” I smiled through clenched teeth.