Love and Gravity by Rebel Carter

Author:Rebel Carter [Carter, Rebel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Violet Gaze Press
Published: 2019-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.”

—Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Where’s Grace?” Anton blinked, looking around the lab—which looked utterly sideways. That morning, Grace had kept up a steady stream of flirty texts, some of them even downright scandalous. Just the way Anton liked them.

But then Grace had gone radio silent. Silence wasn’t something Grace did often, and it concerned him.

Anton had pulled himself away from fine-tuning the new batch of lenses he’d had shipped in from New York months ago. Normally, he would oversee the work on the telescope via teleconference or detailed notes, but now that he was here the opportunity to do the work himself was too tempting to pass up.

There had been the problem of overcoming Geneva’s less-than-suitable altitude for infrared tech. Higher was better for infrared telescopes, and the paltry 1,200-foot elevation of Geneva was unfit for what Lou’s research demanded. Unable to change her research appointment location, Anton had devised a way to make up for the limited elevation. RED’s specifications, for use in a variety of elevations and conditions, was just the thing they needed to make this work.

He lived for this. Taking apart a problem and fitting it back together after he’d perfected it made his blood sing, but he suspected that might be what anyone would encounter when making something capable of glimpsing the farthest reaches of the universe. It was like the sci-fi novels he’d read brought to life and so much bigger than anything on earth.

The stars had been one of the main reasons for him cleaning up his act. They’d always been there, shining through each and every one of his fuck-ups. Anton had set them as his course to a better version of himself, for a life that meant more than just partying and fleeting pleasure.

And yet...even with his team around him and the lens fittings going well, that familiar feeling of excitement at seeing a project come together was overshadowed by Grace’s absence.

What was the world really coming to, if this was the state of affairs?

Of course, ensuring that Beta’s final retrofit was complete was of the utmost importance, but...then there was Grace. You didn’t just send the string of emojis she had sent to him and then disappear.

Aside from that, Anton Kovalev wasn’t used to women going silent. And especially not when he was their boyfriend, which prompted him to give everyone an early lunch on the pretense of seeing if Grace would like to join him. His feet had brought him to the one place he knew Grace would be. But upon seeing the disarray, Anton wondered if he’d guessed wrong.

It looked like she hadn’t set foot in the labs in a month, let alone that morning. Something very, very wrong had happened.

“Where’s Grace?” he tried again, and sidestepped a puddle of unknown substance.

“I don’t know,” Elisha barked, stomping past him with a pinched look on her face. She jabbed a finger at

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