Pregnant and Spoiled by the Billionaire – Episode 33
The photograph proved someone was watching the clinic in real time. Leo’s security team moved before Amelia finished reading the message, surrounding the examination wing and checking every vehicle. Her appointment became a lockdown, with other patients frightened by a danger they did not understand.
Amelia hated that her presence disrupted care for pregnant women who had no connection to the Preston feud. She asked the clinic to continue appointments while officers searched discreetly. Leo agreed, though every unknown face in the corridor drew his attention.
The medical examination showed all five babies developing, but Amelia’s blood pressure had climbed. Her specialist repeated the measurement after ten quiet minutes and found little improvement. Stress could become as dangerous as any physical attack, affecting Amelia’s heart, placental circulation, and the growth of children already competing for limited space. Rest, hydration, and reduced exposure to conflict were medical requirements now, not suggestions.
“How do I reduce exposure when strangers know my hospital?” Amelia asked. The doctor could not solve a security crisis, but she reminded Amelia that accepting help was not the same as surrendering autonomy. The difference depended on whether Amelia participated in each decision.
Leo arranged a secure telemedicine system for routine consultations and a private entrance for necessary scans. Amelia accepted both. She also asked for counseling sessions to help her manage fear without pretending determination made her immune to it.
Back at the penthouse, Preston Group’s board requested an emergency meeting. Several directors worried the scandal threatened investor confidence and accused Leo of allowing personal conflict to affect the company. The share price had fallen enough to make Ian’s short position profitable.
Leo prepared to attend alone, but Amelia asked to hear what the directors said about her. She did not intend to enter the boardroom; she wanted facts before deciding whether a public response would help. He gave her access to the meeting from a secure office.
The directors proposed settling with Wallis Enterprises and removing Amelia from public company events. One suggested that Leo delay the marriage until after the babies’ birth and obtain a formal paternity test to reassure shareholders. Another recommended a confidentiality agreement limiting what Amelia could publish about the company and Preston family. She felt herself becoming a risk category on a financial report, discussed as if she could neither hear nor think.
Leo rejected every proposal. His relationship and children’s medical information were not corporate assets. He also reminded the board that capitulating to market manipulation would expose Preston Group to greater legal and reputational damage.
Derek presented evidence of Ian’s trades and Regina’s deadline. The board’s mood shifted when personal scandal became securities fraud. Directors authorized cooperation with regulators but remained divided over how publicly Leo should defend Amelia.
Amelia ended the video feed before the meeting concluded. Hearing strangers discuss proof that her babies belonged to Leo reopened the humiliation she thought they had survived. Five healthy sons still did not make her worthy in the eyes of people who measured relationships through liability.
Claire found her in the nursery, where five unassembled cribs waited against the wall. Boxes of clothing and monitors filled the floor, evidence of a future strangers were already trying to price. She did not offer easy reassurance. Instead, she admitted that Sam had taught both sisters to calculate their value through what they could provide him, making the board’s language painfully familiar.
“They are doing the same thing with different words,” Claire said. “That doesn’t make their calculation true.” Amelia looked at the empty cribs and decided she would not let a board determine the story her sons inherited.
She drafted a first-person article rather than a defensive press release. It described what happened when institutions treated a woman’s body as evidence owed to investors, strangers, and powerful families. She included no private medical details and named no suspect under active investigation.
Professor Thomas reviewed the piece for clarity, while attorneys checked that publication would not damage the criminal case. Leo read it last. He asked whether Amelia wanted the exposure that would follow, not whether the article protected him.
“Silence is already being interpreted for me,” she said. “I want one record written in my own voice.” Leo approved publication through the university paper rather than Preston Group, preserving its independence.
The article spread faster than Regina’s accusations. Readers responded to Amelia’s refusal to turn pregnancy into public property, quoting passages about consent rather than speculating about the babies. Medical organizations condemned the breach, and several Wallis investors demanded an inquiry into Ian’s conduct. The university paper’s servers struggled beneath traffic no student publication had expected.
Regina reacted with a livestream outside the university. She claimed Amelia used victimhood to silence reporting and promised documentary proof that the billionaire’s fiancée was hiding something dangerous. Police arrived with a warrant before she could show the files.
Officers seized her devices, but Regina smiled as they led her away. “You think I’m the only one with copies?” she called toward the cameras. “Ian made sure the release can’t be stopped.”
At midnight, thousands of emails left an automated server. Amelia’s unredacted medical file reached reporters, investors, and campus accounts—along with a forged note stating that her doctors had advised terminating the pregnancy and that she refused solely to secure five Preston heirs.