I sneered and immediately called my boyfriend, Zack Gilbert. “Who gave you the right to turn my laboratory into a funeral hall for a dead mouse?”
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Zack’s cold voice came from the other end of the line. “Wait.”
Then he hung up.
Xaviera’s eyes glimmered with contempt. “So you’re the old woman who keeps pestering him so shamelessly. Do you really think he’ll listen to you?”
The anger I had been holding back flared up instantly. “Who are you calling shameless?! You’re the one who ruined my equipment!”
These instruments had been shipped from overseas at enormous cost. Every time I used them, I had to wear gloves and handle them with extreme care, just to keep their precision intact.
Now they had been tossed to the floor like worthless junk and my heart ached as if it were bleeding.
Xaviera rolled her eyes in disdain. “I’m talking to you, you pathetic hag clinging to him! I haven’t even blamed you for this pile of junk cluttering up the room and yet you’re the first to complain.”
I was shaking with rage. “This is my lab. Why wouldn’t my instruments be here?”