“You designed the receptor target based on your own HLA haplotypes and mine.” He didn’t blink. “I saw the notebook, Aris. Page ninety-three. You ran the compatibility algorithm last month. You just didn’t tell me.”
Aris felt her face heat. Damn it. “That’s just the lab coat. It’s too warm.”
“I think,” he said slowly, “that you spent six months designing a molecule to prove what I already knew the first week you spilled coffee on my RNA-seq results.”
“I built a proof of concept ,” she corrected, though her heart was hammering. “It’s not for humans. It’s for—look, the grant said ‘novel approaches to pair-bonding in isolated populations.’ Mars missions. Submarines. Whatever.”
Behind them, Culture Plate 47-B glowed on—unnoticed, unnecessary, and entirely beside the point.
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“You designed the receptor target based on your own HLA haplotypes and mine.” He didn’t blink. “I saw the notebook, Aris. Page ninety-three. You ran the compatibility algorithm last month. You just didn’t tell me.”
Aris felt her face heat. Damn it. “That’s just the lab coat. It’s too warm.”
“I think,” he said slowly, “that you spent six months designing a molecule to prove what I already knew the first week you spilled coffee on my RNA-seq results.”
“I built a proof of concept ,” she corrected, though her heart was hammering. “It’s not for humans. It’s for—look, the grant said ‘novel approaches to pair-bonding in isolated populations.’ Mars missions. Submarines. Whatever.”
Behind them, Culture Plate 47-B glowed on—unnoticed, unnecessary, and entirely beside the point.
