I’d never really felt any hostility from Eli, but to be honest, he never treated me as warmly as Kevin did either. I figured he was just the type who's calm on the outside but keeps his distance emotionally. Guess I was wrong. With him and Vera that tight, maybe he never intended to befriend me in the first place.
No wonder he didn’t hesitate to throw me under the bus at that Carter family dinner.
Kevin must’ve also remembered how Eli acted that night. He looked at me apologetically and said, “Sorry about back then. You asked me to run the tests—I should’ve realized you weren’t comfortable handing it to Eli. I should’ve just brought it straight to someone I knew in the pharmacology department. Would’ve saved a lot of trouble.”
I shook my head. “It's not your fault. Maybe it was
