Betrayed? I Upgraded to His Billionaire Brother novel Chapter 249

Chapter 249

I shook my head. “No. It’s that you’ve become inch chattier.”

Chattier was good. It was kind of cute.

Vera blinked, then cleared her throat, regaining a bit of her poised demeanor. “I’m not just chattier. I just talk more with my friends, that’s all

I raised an eyebrow slightly but didn’t reply, focusing on taking her pulse.

After I wrote the new prescription, the pharmacy was on lunch break, Vera filled out a form to have it delivered and then drove us to a nearby

restaurant.

At the restaurant, I got a text from Chloe. I looked at Vera. “My best friend is nearby and wants to join us for lunch. Do you mind if she comes

over?”

“Not at all, invite her along.” Vera said, rinsing our utensils with hot tea. She casually rinsed the two extra sets as well. It was a habit for many people in Jade City. No matter how clean the place looked, you always gave your utensils a quick rinse first. It didn’t kill many germs, but it served as a nice ritual.

Chloe had just finished meeting a client nearby and, figuring I probably hadn’t eaten yet, wanted to grab a meal together. She only found out there was another girl when she arrived.

I pulled her to sit next to me and introduced her to Vera. “This is my best friend, Chloe.”

“Hello, Chloe,” Vera said with a gentle, easygoing smile. “I’m Vera. For now, I’m Elara’s… ordinary friend.”

For now. Ordinary.

Such carefully chosen words.

Chloe joked, “We’ve actually met before, Vera.”

Vera looked surprised. “We have?”

“At a bidding event for a Windsor Group project a couple of years ago.”

Back then, Vera had been standing beside Gavin. Probably because she knew about my connection to him, Chloe had paid more attention to the people around him.

Vera didn’t seem to remember. She laughed lightly. “No need to treat me as CEO Shang’s secretary in private.”

Chloe grinned. “So, if we badmouth Gavin, will you go tattle on us?” A surefire way to test if someone’s a real friend.

“…” Vera clearly hadn’t expected such directness. She thought for a moment. “Well, to be honest, as an employee, I have my fair share of grievances with the boss, too.”

Once you stripped away the “crush” filter, no employee was completely free of complaints about their boss. No matter how tall, handsome, or rich he was, as long as he wasn’t your rich, even his breathing could be considered wrong.

Still, she had to admit she admired Gavin’s skill and capability. She was staying by his side partly to gain experience, preparing to eventually take over her own family’s business.

Chloe nodded seriously and looked at me. “See? Gavin’s reputation is so bad, even his own secretary has complaints.”

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Chapter 249

“Well, it’s not quite that bad.” Vera quickly tried to salvage Gavin’s image in the eyes of his beloved. A thought seemed in occur in her, atul seized the moment. It wasn’t easy for him back when the power struggles within the Windsor family were at their wed

I could imagine that. It didn’t surprise me. How many of these wealthy families truly valued blood ties over power?

Chloe glanced at my expression and followed Vern’s lead. “How so?”

Vera hesitated for a while before finally revealing what she knew. “I heard from my parents that during the worst of the Windsor infighting. Gavin almost died.”

I froze.

Chloe was also stunned. “What?”

“He was still quite young then, probably only twenty–three or twenty–four,” Vera recalled, continuing, “When he first entered Windsor Group, he was kept on the fringes. He eventually left to start his own company. Right when it was starting to gain traction, someone from the Windsor family–no one knows exactly who–set him up. He almost didn’t make it.”

Besides Gavin and Theodore, there were several other cousins in the Windsor family. Faced with such a massive fortune, who wouldn’t want to come out on top?

“It was a car accident, plus a gunshot wound.”

“I heard the bullet missed his heart by a hair’s breadth. He was in emergency surgery for a full day and night before they managed to pull him back from the brink.”

I didn’t know at which word I stopped breathing.

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