The Lab Wars by Kyra Fox

Author:Kyra Fox [Fox, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kyra Fox Author

The Human Side of the Beast

Mia

Mia was officially worried. Wyatt had stormed out of the hub almost three hours ago and seemed to have disappeared.

At first, she figured he’d cool off and come back, but after an hour she realized he wasn’t planning on returning to the hub.

She went to the campus café, to his flat, to her own, then circled back to the hub. Wyatt was nowhere to be found.

There was only one place left, the one place Mia was hoping not to find Wyatt at barely 4pm. Of course, that’s exactly where she found him when she pushed the doors of the dimly lit pub open, sitting on the bar and nursing a lowball of clear liquid.

“Gin on the rocks before happy hour, Doctor Jenkins?” Mia said as she took the stool next to him. “Seems out of character.”

Wyatt lifted the glass to his lips, pausing for a moment then tilting his head back and emptying it with one gulp, coughing before speaking in a rough voice. “Why’d you come here, Mia?”

She turned the question in her head a few times, not sure how to answer. She knew she had to find Wyatt but was stumped on the why.

“Does it matter?” she finally asked. “I’m here, so you can either talk to me or we can sit in brooding silence while you drown yourself in booze.”

“Well, when you put it that way…” Wyatt signaled the bartender for a refill.

“Fine.” Mia threw her hands in the air. “I’ll just point out that if you didn’t want me to find you, you wouldn’t have chosen the one pub you never shut up about.”

“I’ve finally managed to get you here, haven’t I?” he asked in a sour tone.

He had been badgering her to have a drink with him at this pub for a while, promising her no one they knew would be there, that they would have privacy in a sexy atmosphere with good alcohol and even better food. There was something sultry in the ambiance, Mia gave him that, but staying indoors was safe, defined.

“Honestly? I was curious why you’d be so upset about people admiring your picture-perfect family.”

Wyatt chuckled, a dark and gruff sort of laughter, before looking at her. His eyes were full of pain and resignation, something Mia wasn’t accustomed to. She’d seen him serious, angry, excited, full of fiery passion, but never vulnerable.

“Just because we’re photogenic doesn’t mean we’re perfect.” He thanked the bartender who placed his drink in front of him. “And that wasn’t what I was upset about.”

Wyatt turned his face away from her and lifted his drink.

“Just…” Mia huffed and covered the top of his glass with her palm before Wyatt could get any more alcohol into his system. “Would you stop with this ridiculous mantrum and talk to me?” Wyatt scowled at her disruptive hand. “If it’s about the hub, it’s as much my business as yours, we can figure it out together.”

Wyatt produced a derisive sort of sound, between a snort and a huff, but lowered his drink back to the bar.

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