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.

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

I just

needed a dose of

“Congratulations, Dr. Woods.”

shocked. Even my mentor, the head of the lab, was here to congratulate me. He was a jolly old man who was as kind

“I’m so glad you’re

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

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

What was he talking

My heart sank.

him to shut up, but the drunken man ignored me. He

throat, satisfied once

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

of my fellow

easily. There was more,

reached

The cheers grew louder.

Vincent’s face looked so different on the screen. The moment he got down on one knee, the small crowd roared and streamers flew across the

clapping like they were the

heavily when he spoke to me. “Congratulations again,

you know?” I smiled through clenched teeth. With the video looping on the screen,