All Chapters of The Doctor's Secret Baby: Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

Chapter 12 – “Cleared… or Cornered?”Adrian's POVThere’s something about fluorescent lighting that makes everything feel worse. Like it highlights every mistake you’ve ever made and every bad decision you wish you could Ctrl + Z. And today? The whole ER smelled like sterilized dread and pending doom.The final hearing was set.And I was walking straight into it.Liana didn’t say a word when we met outside the boardroom. She stood stiff in her scrubs, arms crossed, lips pursed—like a soldier before a war she never wanted to fight.“Ready?” I asked.She didn’t look at me. “Does it matter?”Fair enough.Inside the conference room, the panel looked like judges from a medical-themed America’s Got Talent—HR, Hospital Director, a rep from the Philippine Transparency Authority, and of course, Dr. Navarro, the clinical dean with a permanent RBF and a moral compass sharp enough to pierce armor.They played the audio clip again—me and Liana were silent as Miguel and Marco’s voices laughed throu