Betrayed? I Upgraded to His Billionaire Brother novel Chapter 266

Chapter 266

Chapter 266

His smile turned sad. “She’s missing”

I was completely taken aback. I never would have guessed the Sinclair family held such a painful secret.

A young woman who should have been raised surrounded by the Sinclair family’s love and privilege was now… who knows where. Logically, with the Sinclairs‘ power and influence in the U.S., even ten or twenty years ago, they should have been able to find their own daughter.

My little sister wasn’t lost here in New York,” Benjamin continued, seeing my surprise. “We’ve been looking for her all these years. We just don’t know… if she’s even still alive and well out there.”

He explained that years ago, Alexander had gone to expand the business into a new branch.

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Hannah, deeply in love with her husband, went with him. It was there that their youngest daughter was born. When she was just over two years old, she was kidnapped by a business rival.

The Sinclairs immediately involved the police and used every connection they had, but the trail of the kidnappers went cold at the border.

All these years, the family had tried everything to find leads.

But there was never any news.

I was, after all, an outsider. The fact that Benjamin was sharing such a private family tragedy with me, his mother’s doctor, was significant in itself.

I didn’t feel it was my place to pry further. “I’m sure the young lady is resilient and fortunate,” I offered, a standard but heartfelt consolation. “She’ll have a strong life.”

‘I appreciate you saying that.” The Sinclair family had undoubtedly heard variations of this sentiment countless times over the years. But for some reason, hearing it from me seemed to offer Benjamin a small measure of comfort.

It was as if he could allow himself to believe, just for a moment, that his sister was safe and sound somewhere, just waiting to be found. That their whole family would have the chance to make it up to her a thousand times over.

‘What are you two chatting about?”

Hannah asked, already seated at the dining table. She beckoned me over warmly. “Dr. Windsor, come, eat! The creamy chicken soup today is particularly

excellent.”

Years of working with many elderly patients had made me comfortable and natural around older people. So when I looked at Hannah, I genuinely found her to

be… warm and kind.

Third–person POV

A stark contrast to the warm, familial atmosphere at the Sinclairs‘, the car carrying Margaret to the Vanderbilt meeting was thick with her rage. She slammed her palm repeatedly against the center console.

The butler, seated in the passenger seat, feared for her health. “Madam, please, you must calm down!”

‘Calm down? HOW CAN I CALM DOWN?!” Margaret’s jowls trembled with the force of her fury.

How did Elara suddenly latch onto the Sinclairs?? Treating Mrs. Sinclair’s legs? With what? Her half–baked medical skills?!”

True medicine required decades of study to master. Yet this wretched girl was playing everyone for fools–one minute developing a miracle cancer drug, the next curing paralysis. And people were buying it! It was insane!

The butler was the first, to regain his composure.

“The Sinclairs are a certain kind of people,” he said coolly. “The moment they discover Elara is playing them, she’ll be finished in the medical world.

The Sinclair family was indeed known among the great families for their civility. But that didn’t mean they tolerated being made into fools. When they chose

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favor you, you were an honored guest. When they turned, it was a different story entirely

argaret took several deep, shuddering breaths, trying to bank her fury. “Punishing Elara isn’t the immediate problem. How do we explain this to the

inderbilts?

ey’d already stood them up once. A second time, and the Vanderbilts would likely cut ties completely, fostering a lasting grudge. But if she wanted to slowly dermine Gavin’s power, an alliance with the Vanderbilts was essential.

ie butler thought for a moment, a sly smile touching his lips. “With the Sinclairs backing Elara now, she’s out of our reach. But providing the Vanderbilta th… suitable company isn’t impossible.”

That are you suggesting?”

ane’s widowed sister in law.”

ou mean Amelia?”

argaret hesitated. After all, Amelia was the mother of the Grayson family’s eldest grandson. If Amelia had crossed the Windsors, any retaliation would be stified, and the Graysons couldn’t complain.

it acting without provocation… forcing the mother of the Grayson heir to entertain the fourth son of the Vanderbilt family. it was a blatant slap in the face.

le butler, long attuned to Margaret’s thoughts, understood her hesitation.

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