Betrayed I Upgraded to His Billionaire Brother novel Chapter 165

I shot a desperate look at Gavin, I was dying of embarrassment.

I couldn’t very well say. There is no girlfriend, the lipstick on his mouth is mine.”

Gavin saw my look, but did nothing. He just watched me with amused anticipation, waiting to see how I’d explain our relationship.

Seeing him leave me hanging. I smiled sweetly and decided to just lie through my teeth. “There is no girlfriend. He just got dumped.”

What? Charles and the others looked stunned. “But they just got together?”

“Yep.” I said, not entirely clear on the details myself, assuming they were talking about the ex girlfriend he’d just broken up with. I just went with it. “When I came over. I saw the lipstick on his mouth. Must’ve been a goodbye kiss.”

The guys in the room burst out laughing, all giving Gavin teasing looks.

The great heir to the Windsor Group, dumped after just a couple of days?

Gavin let out a short, incredulous laugh. “I’ve heard of a goodbye fuck,” he said, his eyes locked on me, “but where did you dig up a ‘goodbye kiss‘?” A dangerous smile played on his lips. “Trying to be trendy?”

Goodbye fuck.

Hearing the word from his mouth, my mind immediately went somewhere it shouldn’t.

Before I could say anything, Charles’s eyes swept over Gavin’s trim waist. “Hey, Elara,” he said, turning to me. “There’s no way your brother got dumped. They’re just playing games. It’s all part of the fun.”

I was confused. “Huh?”

Charles gestured toward Gavin with his chin. “Look at his belt today. It’s totally not a brand he’d ever buy for himself. Someone else definitely gave that to him.”

“And,” he added, leaning in conspiratorially, “do you know what it means when someone gives a man a belt?”

My eyes were drawn to the belt. It was the one I’d bought him to go with the suit I’d ruined.

The smile on my face felt stiff. “What does it mean?”

“It means they’re together together,” Charles declared, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. “I mean, why else would a girl just randomly buy a guy a belt?”

My eyes flickered involuntarily to Gavin. He was watching me, his gaze full of silent mockery, still offering no help.

I coughed awkwardly. “I–Is that so?”

Before I could finish, Amelia’s eyes swept over my lips, a strange look in them. As if she’d just realized something, she dropped a bombshell.

“Hey, Elara,” she said, her voice cutting through the room. “The color of your lipstick today… it looks really similar to the one smudged on Gavin’s mouth just now. Almost identical, actually. You wouldn’t happen to be Gavin’s girlfr-”

My spine went ramrod straight.

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Betrayed? I Upgraded to His Billionaire Brother

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Chapter 165

If Gavin and I were in a real, proper relationship, and they’d actually figured it out, I might have just come clean.

But we weren’t. We were…. this. The kind of relationship people would look down on. The kind that would invite scorn.

Not toward him, of course. Always toward me.

They’d say I’d latched onto the Windsor family as a teenage girl, calling him ‘brother,‘ and now, to cling to my privileged life, I’d sunk even lower. Becoming his lover.

“Amelia!” Zane’s voice was cold and sharp, cutting her off abruptly. “What the hell is wrong with you? Elara and Gavin are siblings.”

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