All Chapters of PREGNANT and REJECTED by the BILLIONAIRE : Chapter 181 - Chapter 185

POV: MargaretI stood at the front of the lecture hall, watching thirty-eight young faces stare back at me with varying degrees of attention. Some were genuinely engaged, others were clearly counting down the minutes until they could escape medical ethics and get back to the exciting stuff, surgery techniques, diagnostic procedures, anything that didn't involve prolonged discussions about moral philosophy."Let's talk about intention versus outcome," I said, clicking to the next slide. A case study appeared, carefully anonymized. A doctor who'd used experimental treatment without full authorization. The patient survived. The doctor faced consequences.Three months had passed since Lyra's wedding, three months since I'd watched my daughter marry a good man and felt, for the first time in years, like maybe I'd done something right. The reinstatement to limited medical practice had come through two weeks later. Supervised rounds at the hospital twice a week, and this teaching position at

POV: EmmaThe phone wouldn't stop ringing. I stared at it from across my desk, watching the screen light up with another incoming call. Another desperate family. Another missing person. Another plea for help that made my chest tight with the weight of responsibility I'd never asked for.Twenty-three cases closed in one year. Twenty-three people found and returned to their families. It should have felt like victory. Instead, it felt like drowning.The news segment had aired three weeks ago, a feel-good human interest story about "The Woman Who Finds Lost People." They'd interviewed families I'd helped, shown footage of tearful reunions, and painted me as some kind of hero. The reporter had asked about my motivation, and I'd made the mistake of being honest."I know what it's like to be lost," I'd said. "I know what it's like when people stop looking for you."The requests had started immediately. Hundreds of emails, phone calls, messages on every platform. Parents looking for runaway t