Cheat With My Boyfriend Best Friend

Why’s My Darling So Upset?

“Want some coffee?” I asked Nick.

“Yes, please.” He held out his cup eagerly, then took a sip. “D*mn, that’s good!”

He nearly jumped out of his chair and cried, “I feel like I’m in heaven! Where’d you get this?!”

“Oh… Haha, it’s just a custom drink from the Starbucks out front.” I smiled stiffly. It was actually from Aaron; he brewed it himself.

Breakfast was embarrassing. The food was incredible-the bacon, crepes, and eggs were all perfect-but the

conversation afterward ruined my appetite. My stomach felt like it was filled with rocks.

“Honestly, Olive… When are you gonna break up with him?”

“I don’t know. Maybe today.” I shrugged and avoided Aaron’s eyes. I desperately racked my brain for something to say that’d liven up the frigid atmosphere.

“Maybe never…” Aaron muttered. His voice grew quieter.

I swallowed another mouthful of coffee as I felt my heart sink.

I don’t know why I teased him like that. Aaron looked devastated, and his furrowed brow made him look like a lost child.

But we weren’t anything more than f*ck buddies.

“If you like the coffee, why don’t you take some with you?” Aaron suddenly asked. “It doesn’t look like you ate much else.”

“No, I… I just don’t have that big of an appetite right now.”

“It’s alright. I’m no chef at all. I won’t be upset if you don’t like my cooking…”

“Aaron, that’s not—”

“Hello? Earth to Olive! What are you thinking about?” Nick waved his hand in front of my face. “You’ve been

daydreaming a lot lately.”

smiled weakly.

just get through our work

again started to spend nearly every waking hour on

so he stopped forcing me into any sort of excessive intimacy. He even pampered

truth though. He was simply having his sexual appetite satisfied elsewhere, so he didn’t feel the need to pressure

next few days. I occasionally wondered what he was doing, but thoughts of

we hit a bottleneck in our

next progress deadline was

the pile of empty test tubes on my lab bench. I had performed a dozen tests and every one had failed. I just

me. “With all that scratching, your hair looks

you look like a raccoon.” I pointed to the dark circles under

you!” He

rang: Vincent was

babe, are

my experiments.

with you.” Vincent paused, then

that matter. Most of all, I was too lazy to deal with

seconds, the phone rang again. I frowned and picked up before even reading the

I’m busy! Leave me

end was quiet for a moment, but before I could hang up, I heard

my darling

and I

It was Aaron.

his name. “Sorry, I thought you were Vincent… My

up over it.” His gentle smile was audible. “Just wait there when you’re off. I’ll

me a chance to object before he hung up

darkened, I

you ask him to bring me a cup of coffee?

you some,”