Betrayed? I Upgraded to His Billionaire Brother novel Chapter 252

Chapter 252

He’d just been thankful she wasn’t in the car.

Thankful she wasn’t by his side.

Gavin reached out and pinched my cheek, a lazy smile tugging at his lips. “I don’t really remember. Do you want to kiss it better for me? His tone WAS decidedly lacking in seriousness.

But his words sent my mind reeling.

When I was little, Gavin had spoiled me into being ridiculously fussy. The slightest scratch and I’d whine and pester him to “kiss it better.”

Nowadays, it felt a bit like ancient, embarrassing history.

I looked up at him. “…It’s already healed. How could kissing it help now?”

“If you know that, why ask?” Gavin didn’t want her getting distracted right now. “Whether it hurt or not, it was a long time ago. The most important thing for you right now is the drug development. Don’t focus your energy on other things.”

-How could anything about you be considered ‘other things‘?

The thought, rising unbidden from my subconscious, sent a jolt through me. I hid my panic by looking down. “I know.”

Honestly, I had a clear head about what I needed to do most right now.

So many of the things I wanted to do depended on this project’s success. Otherwise, I’d be stuck.

I decided to stop thinking about anything else and just plunged headfirst back into the lab.

Finally, we pushed the project to the stage of applying for clinical trials.

One day, I walked into the R&D department with my bag as usual, only to be steered toward the conference room by Elias.

I was confused. “Elias, what is it? An impromptu meeting today?”

“Not a meeting,” Elias said with a gentle smile. As we neared the conference room door, he covered my eyes. “Get ready. It’s a surprise.”

I was still processing that when I heard the door open and the entire R&D department speak in unison:

“Group Leader Windsor! Congratulations on the successful development!”

“Congratulations, Group Leader Windsor! And congrats to the R&D team for a brilliant victory!”

“Group Leader Windsor! You’re incredible! This time, you’ve really and truly one–upped all of us!”

Someone noticed Caíus hanging back in the crowd without speaking and couldn’t help but prompt him. “Caius, why are you spacing out now? Hurry up and congratulate your team leader.”

Caius, who seemed lost in his own thoughts, snapped back to attention. “Oh! Right, I’m just… too happy!”

“Elara, congratulations,” Elias said, removing his hands. “Whether as your senior or your partner, I’m thrilled for you.”

I opened my eyes to see genuine smiles on everyone’s faces. The conference room was decorated, and there was a huge cake on the table.

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Thank you everyone. This project succeeded thanks to the support of each and weary penn heissid, ferling dy happy mulde, Buy tent shifted gears. “However, whether it’s a final morsk still depends on the clinical trial roads

Yesterday, the final development data completed us last round of checks and was submitted to the relevant authorities. The next step is it m production arrangements and clinical trials.

Every stage was a hurdle.

Abbott smiled.

“Group Leader Windsor, we all believe in you. You need to believe in yourself, too!”

After all, since I’d joined the project team, apart from the incident where Sullivan and the others tampered with things, all the other experiments had been successful on the first try. This final data had been checked and re checked, there surely couldn’t be a problem

Then, he beckoned to me. “Our star contributor, come cut the cake! Everyone’s waiting to share in your celebratory spirit.”

Even though Elias and I were the primary developers, once this drug hit the market, everyone in R&D would benefit.

“Alright,” I said with a smile, walking over and starting to slice the cake, placing pieces onto plates.

Right in the middle of cutting, the conference room door suddenly opened. Vera stood in the doorway, smiling. “I see you’ve already started the party?”

Abbott rubbed his nose. “With news like this, who could wait?”

“What I mean is,” Vera said, walking over to me and putting a hand on my shoulder, “are you really going to celebrate Group Leader Windsor’s achievement in such a… perfunctory way?”

“Well, the budget is a bit tight…”

“No need to use the R&D budget for this,” Vera announced with a wave of her hand. “The Group has arranged a celebration banquet for the entire R&D department tomorrow night. And nobody is allowed to skip it!”

“For real?” Everyone in R&D looked surprised. “Don’t we usually have the celebration banquet after the drug actually hits the market?”

“This project,” Vera said, drawing out the suspense and glancing at me, “is different. This drug holds special significance for the Group, too.”

Everyone was instantly thrilled. The Group’s celebration banquets were always lavish.

A hefty red envelope for every person in R&D was practically guaranteed.

The real question was what kind of reward the Group had in store for Group Leader Windsor, the star of the show.

Even if it was a bonus of several hundred thousand right now, no one would bat an eye. With skills like hers, she deserved every bit of it.

After we’d finished the cake in the conference room and stepped out, Elias smiled. “Does the old man know yet?”

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