Betrayed? I Upgraded to His Billionaire Brother novel Chapter 232

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Seeing the food container, I made a beeline for the bedroom. “I don’t want to eat. I just want to sleep.” I’m a doctor, but my own health habits. are terrible. I’d often starve myself until my stomach ached.

Who knew he’d grab my ponytail, quick as he’d snagged Scout.

His voice was calm, but I could hear the patience stretched thin beneath it. “Eating won’t take long.”

“…”

I knew better than to argue. I snatched my ponytail back and shuffled to the dining room, my steps heavier now, a clear protest against this delay of my beauty sleep.

Gavin laid out the dishes and sat beside me. “Eat properly. Don’t just take a few bites and call it done.”

“Gavin,” I started, maybe too tired to filter my thoughts, “is it because you’re getting older? Is that why you like listening to pointless chatter now? And talking more yourself?”

He nearly choked on a laugh, his tongue swiping over his teeth. “Say that again?”

Almost imperceptibly, he glanced down at his clothes. Didn’t guys my age dress like this?

Hearing the chill in his voice, I finally registered my words. I buried my face in my bowl. “…Nothing.”

Focused on sleep, I ate quickly.

As I was finishing the last of my corn juice, my foggy brain finally caught up.

Gavin had already showered.

He was in my apartment.

And he showed no signs of leaving.

I turned to him, swallowing the last sip.

“I… I’m just too tired tonight…” Even just kissing or hugging felt beyond my capacity. I was a young woman in my prime, utterly drained by work, with nothing left for any of the seven emotions and six desires.

He gave me a flat look. “Then go take a shower. Or are you waiting for me to sing you a lullaby?”

A lullaby.

He’d actually done that before, sung to help me sleep.

After my parents‘ accident, which happened during a thunderstorm, I could never sleep well on stormy nights, plagued by nightmares.

Gavin would pat my back and hum until I fell asleep.

Pulling myself from the memory, I seized his words. “I’ll go shower then. Make yourself at home.” As long as he didn’t bother me, he could do

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er he wanted.

But when I came out of the shower and saw the extra person in my bed, I still froze for a second.

Make yourself at home. He’d taken it literally.

He’d gone back to his place, changed into silk pajamas, and was lying on the left side of the bed. My lifelong habit was to sleep on the right.. Where I ended up after falling asleep was another story.

I walked over and noticed the dark circles under his eyes were worse than mine, and I hadn’t slept a wink in over twenty–four hours.

Standing quietly by the bed, a sudden, faint laugh escaped me.

The man, who’d seemed sound asleep, suddenly reached out, grabbed my arm, and pulled me into the bed and against his chest. His voice was rough with sleep.

“What’s so funny?”

“Nothing.” I couldn’t exactly say I was remembering the time I drew a turtle on his face while he was asleep. I’d already put my foot in my mouth once at dinner. I didn’t want to poke the bear again.

His arm circled my waist, his chin nudging gently against my collarbone as his eyes closed again.

“Then sleep.”

The next morning, when I woke up, the man beside me was gone. Just a note left behind.

Telling me to walk Yoyo before work.

Since I’d slept early, I took Yoyo out for a long play session in the complex, gave him fresh water and food, then leisurely headed to work.

First stop, the clinic.

Right after I arrived, before I could even start seeing patients, Elias knocked and entered. In his white coat, he looked every bit the gentle, refined doctor.

I smiled. “Morning.”

Seeing my grin, his lips curved too, but he didn’t forget his purpose.

“Amelia poached a senior expert from the clinic. Looks like she’s really serious about starting her own R&D.”

I wasn’t bothered. “To each their own.” If Amelia and her team could actually develop something, good for them–it would benefit everyone. But

I was confident in my own skills. It would be hard to find anyone more suited to developing this drug than me.

Around noon, Elias was still busy, so I drove to the project site alone.

Just as I was about to enter the lab, Abbott came over, looking apologetic and frustrated.

“Group Leader Windsor, about yesterday… I’m really sorry. If I’d known those two were so narrow–minded, I’d never have assigned them to you.”

“It’s fine.” I smiled. “You can’t judge a book by its cover. No one could have known before it happened.”

I paused, wanting to confirm. “Did they say who put them up to it?” I suspected Amelia, but the logic didn’t quite track. She’d seemed content to wait and reap the benefits before. Why sabotage the data now?

“No.” Abbott said, “No one did.” He looked even more embarrassed. “Those two jerks… they just couldn’t handle taking orders from someone

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younger. Originally, Leopold wasn’t in on it with Sullivan, but he felt you still didn’t value him after he tried to suck up to you, an