Too late, Ex. NOW WATCH ME RISE
Lillian Harper dropped out of nursing school to become a housewife to Nathaniel Brooks, through a contract marriage arranged by their families
During their marriage, Nathaniel brought other women into their home and made it clear that their union was nothing more than a contract agreement.
Then one evening, he handed her divorce papers and sent her packing out of the house.
But the next morning, he was standing on her mother's porch, begging her to come back.
What changed overnight?
William Brooks is dead. And his will contain a single clause that neither of them saw coming. If the couple divorced within twelve months after his death, every controlling share of the Brooks Group of Companies transfers to entirely to Lillian Harper.
The empire Nathaniel was born to inherit now sits completely in the hands of the woman he divorced.
Will Lillian sign the papers and walk away with empire he never thought she deserved? Or..... will she give Nathaniel a second chance, knowing his motives may never be entirely pure?
Lillian Harper is done being weak. She will not sign the divorce papers and set him free. She will not take him back and make things easy. She is going to finish her degree, live life to the fullest, and watch Nathaniel Brooks watch every single moment of it while he slowly comes to understand what he has lost.
But there is a problem!
Vanessa Clarke, Nathaniel's current girlfriend and the woman he humiliated Lilian with for three years, has no intention of watching quietly. She wants Nathaniel, she wants the empire, and she wants Lillian goen by any means necessary.
What follows is twelve months of social warfare, failed schemes, family secrets, and a love story that neither of them planned for
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Chapter: Chapter 139: Lillian And The Scared ManChapter 137. The sound of Jazz music filled the air, cigarette and bear filled the air, the stench of alcohol. While the slow background drum kit and the sax trumpet sound made the bar a little lively. The Western side of side were men in simple clothing outfit cheering up over some bear on their table, the sports rugby channel playing on the large 42-inch television. Conversation were either about the sports betting or the champions on the league table. Married women with their wives quite at the table, or anther sections of the room forced to stare at the television. Over two dozen people were in the small almost suffocating room. Lillian Harper walked into the room and at that moment that hall froze. The bartender who was actually wiping his desk with a rag dry paused his had mid-swing. The crowded room actually went to a still. Just the background music and Lillian hills clicking on the floor. “That's a rich fine lady here.” “She must be lost or something? What can a gir
Last Updated: 2026-10-01
Chapter: Chapter 137:The Oakfield private airfield at 6:47 p.m. looks like nowhere. Just cracked tarmac, a single hangar, a wind sock that has been there since Nathaniel was a child. It was where William used to land when he didn't want press. It was where Nathaniel first kissed me when I was seventeen and he was twenty and we thought the world was ours.I wore the same black suit from the boardroom. I hadn't had time to change. I kept smoothing the lapel down because I wanted him to see me like this — not as the girl on his mother's porch begging, not as the wife in the kitchen waiting for heels to leave. As the woman who had just taken a mafia affiliate off her father's board with documents and nerve.I was pacing with the good news bursting in my throat.The jet came down clean, white with a navy stripe. The Brooks crest on the tail. The stairs lowered.And my heart stopped.Nathaniel jumped off first. Handsome, disheveled, tired in a way I hadn't seen him in months. His shirt was wrinkled. He looked a
Last Updated: 2026-09-22
Chapter: Chapter 132Chapter 112: Please Listen“I know what I saw.” Lillian clenched her fist.She had on simple polo the Global Alliance Care shirt. She stood directly below the crystal chandeliers of William's old library. Nathaniel stood across his father's William chair, his face, that cold stare, that calculating frown, watching the woman who saved his life lay such accusation on Patricia Brooks and VanessaThey've been in William's Brooks office for at least two hours. But Patricia brook. Nathaniel starred at the lady that told him no one else had to know who was and wasn't really related to William and no clause wasn't going to separate them. The woman who didn't dissolve their marriage resolution, because of his betrayal. And now she's frightened and he could not calm her down.Lillian had escaped her apartment to Oakfield, Nathaniel caught her on the way when his one of one Maserati caught on the way. Lillian saw it drive past tugging her bag to her chest and called him. Lillian walked for q
Last Updated: 2026-09-20
Chapter: Chapter 131Chapter 112: Please Listen“I know what I saw.” Lillian clenched her fist.She had on simple polo the Global Alliance Care shirt. She stood directly below the crystal chandeliers of William's old library. Nathaniel stood across his father's William chair, his face, that cold stare, that calculating frown, watching the woman who saved his life lay such accusation on Patricia Brooks and VanessaThey've been in William's Brooks office for at least two hours. But Patricia brook. Nathaniel starred at the lady that told him no one else had to know who was and wasn't really related to William and no clause wasn't going to separate them. The woman who didn't dissolve their marriage resolution, because of his betrayal. And now she's frightened and he could not calm her down.Lillian had escaped her apartment to Oakfield, Nathaniel caught her on the way when his one of one Maserati caught on the way. Lillian saw it drive past tugging her bag to her chest and called him. Lillian walked for q
Last Updated: 2026-09-20
Chapter: Chapter 130Chapter 125: The Annual retires conference began at 11:30am, it had four speakers, all four speakers were women and Lillian was the youngest among the speakers. Looking exuberant. Seated on the far left was Lillian, her legs crossed with her both hands on her lap with an accommodating smile, the next person was a CEO of a big Pharma antibiotic company, then next to big pharma CEO was a the moderator. Dr Hassan PHD. The four thousand capacity stadium were Lillian walked up to the podium. Her hills clicking.“Good day ladies and gentlemen, I've been waiting for the grand schemes of things. Her hand “Is it true that you and your husband, that the alleged cases about trafficking are true?”The report washed Lillian's gaze closely watching her with a smile, as if waiting for her to squirm.But Lillian seeing through the question and the eyes of the anticipating audience. “Please we'd like to stuck with questions about today's event. That had nothing to do with our current programm
Last Updated: 2026-09-17
Chapter: Chapter 129Chapter 125: The Annual retires conference began at 11:30am, it had four speakers, all four speakers were women and Lillian was the youngest among the speakers. Looking exuberant. Seated on the far left was Lillian, her legs crossed with her both hands on her lap with an accommodating smile, the next person was a CEO of a big Pharma antibiotic company, then next to big pharma CEO was a the moderator. Dr Hassan PHD. The four thousand capacity stadium were Lillian walked up to the podium. Her hills clicking.“Good day ladies and gentlemen, I've been waiting for the grand schemes of things. Her hand “Is it true that you and your husband, that the alleged cases about trafficking are true?”The report washed Lillian's gaze closely watching her with a smile, as if waiting for her to squirm.But Lillian seeing through the question and the eyes of the anticipating audience. “Please we'd like to stuck with questions about today's event. That had nothing to do with our current programm
Last Updated: 2026-09-17
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