Filed To Story: Cheating with My Boyfriend's Best Friend Novel Read Online (Olive & Aaron)
“Olive, what are you thinking?”
I seemed to hear Adenauer’s voice and see him wave his hand in front of my eyes.
I quickly regained my senses and blinked a few times, only to see Cinder waving her hand at the camera on the computer screen.
“Baby, why are you in a daze? What did he say?”
Only then did I realize I had thought of Aaron again! I had vowed to remove him from my heart, so I must not think about him anymore!
I quickly shook him out of my mind and told Cinder and Nick what Adenauer had said then.
“Olive, you met the right man,” Cinder said with emotions.
She imitated Adenauer’s deep voice and said, “If I were twenty, I would have felt disappointed. But now, I care more about how we get along with each other. These are the love words that only a mature man in his thirties can say! He is a reliable good man!”
I thought the same. But when I was about to echo her, Nick suddenly snorted and coldly said, “Maybe he is just impotent.”
Cinder and I turned to look at Nick on the computer screen in union and then exchanged glances because he made us feel unfamiliar!
Thinking carefully, I realized his state had also been strange during the last few FaceTime calls. But we had both bought his story, believing it was because he hadn’t adapted to the high-p**ssure life at Harvard.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to lie.”
Before Cinder and I could speak, Nick took the initiative to apologize like the previous few times.
He looked at me with a guilty exp**ssion and said, “Baby, please believe me. I do hope you lead a happy life, but my work has been too stressful recently.”
Then, he lowered his head and spoke incoherently in a hoarse voice.
I remember he had once been in such a state before, but it was not because of work p**ssure. We had worked with the same professor for several years, so I knew his reaction in a high- p**ssure work environment well.
Back then, he had become talkative, frantically complained as soon as leaving the lab, and tried his best to have fun after work.
He had worked out in the gym, gone camping, hit bars, or just had a crazy snack purchase in Walmart. But in most cases, he had stayed with his ex who was a scumbag.
Although these were all past, I could not believe his current state was because of “work p**ssure”.
“Nick, you know we’ll always be your friends, right?” Cinder suddenly said.
She had spoken my mind.
Nick looked up at us with moist eyes and laughed, “Of course. I don’t need to hide anything from you! You know my depth better than my exes!”
Well, his joke always amused me.
“Since you are worried, I will briefly tell you about it. After joining the new team, I have a minor problem. My colleague Dr. Craigie Reuben hates gays, especially bottoms like me.”
Hearing him talking about his unpleasant conflicts with the homophobic man in the lab, I supp**ssed my doubts. But my instinct told me this was not the real source of his stress. However, since he did not want to say, I was willing to respect his will.
Anyway, he just needed to remember we would always be his friends as Cinder had said. As long as he needed to talk, he could contact us at any time.
Hearing his words, Cinder said, “Some people are sanctimonious. They look educated, but their heads are full of shit!”
Her words aroused our curiosity.
I t**sed, “It seems weird guys appeared in your world again.”
“Although I don’t want to admit it, you guess it right. I met one of the five most disgusting and despicable clients in my life.”
“Who are the other four?” Nick asked.
“There are no other four! This list is specially made for him.”
Nick and I had relatively closed social environments, but Cinder needed to deal with more people at work.
As a professional landscape architect with a firm career pursuit, she was striving to make everyone she met her client or an intermediary who could introduce clients to her. And the more people she met, the more weirdos she knew.
“Eliott was busy studying in the hospital last month, so I attended a business party alone. A man took the initiative to talk to me. After learning about my occupation, he said he happened to have a newly completed villa and invited me to design for him.”
On the screen, Cinder stood with arms akimbo with a distraught face.
I grabbed a bag of snacks, adjusted to a comfortable posture on the sofa, and t**sed, “It seems the man made you suffer a lot. I’ve known you for many years, but you have never lost control like this because of a client.”
Hearing her tone of voice, I was pretty sure she would begin her rant.
Sure enough, Cinder took a deep breath, exhaled heavily, and said, “Although I don’t want to admit it, you are right again. I did misjudge him. But I have never expected a man from the Middle East to be so stingy!”
Nick also took a sip of water, looked at her with interest, and asked, “Does he think your design fee is too expensive?”
Cinder rolled her eyes and said, “Many clients bargain with me on design fees, so I will not get angry about such a thing. He is ridiculous because he not only demanded a free design but also sued me!”
“What?” Nick was stunned.
I was also shocked, so I asked, “Well, he deserves to be put on the list of the most disgusting clients. Tell us the details.”
“First of all, this strange client has a long family name. Let’s call him Mr. Jamaal for short. And he has a Sheikh before his name.”
“What does it mean?”
“Sheikh is an honorific title, indicating the person is the head of an Arab tribe, a family, or a village, an important member of the royal family, or a religious scholar. Because of this title, I relaxed my guard. I thought since he has a high status in Saudi Arabia, he must be rich.”
“So, he’s a fake rich man?”
“Yes, and he is a jerk! I attended the party alone, so he mistakenly thought I was single and took me out of the party on the pretext of talking business.
Nick interrupted with a gossipy face, “Was he trying to chase after you?”
Cinder lowered her head in frustration like a leaky balloon, saying, “Yes.”
Then, she raised her head and angrily said, “When he first exp**ssed his feelings for me, I decided to endure it for money. When I worked out the design plan for his villa and gave it to him, he nodded to exp**ss his satisfaction. But after I refused to date him and told him I was seeing someone else, he kicked me out of his residence and blamed me for playing with his feelings! What disgusted me more is that he refused to pay me the design fee and accused me of fraud. He claimed our contract has an imparity clause.”
Nick and I exchanged glances with each other, mourning for Cinder.
I thought Mr. Stranger was indeed a disgusting man.
“Can you solve it?” I asked.
“Yeah. After I told my dad about it, he arranged a professional lawyer team for me. Even if Mr. Stranger were the king of Saudi Arabia, he would have to pay me the design fee!”
I couldn’t help applauding her spirit.
Cinder looked at me and said, “Nick and I have both talked about the weirdos we met. What about you? Have you encountered any interesting things at work?”
Nick showed an interested exp**ssion on the screen.
I pondered for a while and said, “Yes, I have one!”
“I ran into the CEO of our company having sex in the office.”
My words instantly got Cinder and Nick excited, so they pumped up their cars to hear the details.
My mind went back to that afternoon.
The light was dim at sunset. I saw two scruffy people crash into the gap bet**en the sofa and the flowerpot and heard them gasp and m**n in lust.
I had to admit that the Germans knew how to restrain themselves and indulge themselves well.
I had come from the United States, which was very far away, so we had completely different languages and lifestyles. But my work environment had hardly changed because I was in the lab most of the time.
After our group took over the new project, progress was rapid, but we soon encountered a bottleneck.
Our group was primarily responsible for quantitative proteomics and had developed a targeted analysis technique. It could detect more regular changes in biomarkers in the liver cancer stage.
But we did notice some problems, the biggest of which was that there were very few samples from animal experiments.
We summarize these problems, hold a meeting and internally find a solution. We decided to report the problems to upper management and request an increase in the budget to add new samples as soon as possible.
But after Charlotte calculated the funding we needed, all my colleagues raised their eyebrows and made strange exp**ssions.
“This is not a small number. I am afraid it exceeds the authority of Dr. Archer’s approval.”
“Then, we must also get Mr. Schutze’s approval, right?”
Eric Schutze was the CEO of TWH and I had gone to his office on my first day on the job. He was a man in his sixties with a large nose and deep set eyes.That day, he had put on a well-fitting suit with a tie, looking even fitter than my boss, Dr. Archer.
I looked curiously at my colleagues and asked, “Why do you react like this? Is something wrong with Mr. Schutze?”
“The problem lies with the boss, Dr. Archer, rather than Mr. Schutze,” Kayden said bluntly.
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