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Chapter 36: Dr Renee Ashton
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2026-07-25 18:22:05
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Too late, Ex. NOW WATCH ME RISE Chapter 69: The Aftermath
Patricia Brooks was sentenced to fourteen years for conspiracy to commit murder, plus five more for kidnapping, plus two more for cutting off her ankle monitor.She did not speak at sentencing. Vanessa did not go.The Brooks Pharmaceuticals contaminated batch was recalled fully. No children died. The little boy who threw up on Nathaniel's t-shirt sent Nathaniel a drawing of a superhero nurse that Nathaniel framed and put in his small glass office.Vanessa Cole — she kept the name Cole — was given probation, community service, and mandatory therapy, in exchange for her testimony and for calling the FDA. She completed her nursing certificate and stayed on at Global Care as a volunteer, taking vitals, never touching medications, supervised by Maya, who never fully trusted her but respected her work.Grace Harper Brooks moved into Lillian's old apartment, the one with police tape that had been removed, and decorated it with thrift-store things and one expensive green plant Lillian gave he
Too late, Ex. NOW WATCH ME RISE Chapter 68: The wall
Lillian ran to Margaret's house with Nathaniel and Vanessa behind her, all three of them in scrubs and Volunteer t-shirts and stained dresses, looking like the world's worst emergency response team.The front door was open, just like in the photo. The soup pot overturned. Wine glass shattered. Red lipstick on the wall: YOU TOOK MY DAUGHTER. NOW I TAKE YOURS. - P.But Margaret was not there. Edward was not there. Grace was not there.The house was empty, too quiet, like the Brooks estate had been too quiet before Patricia appeared with a shotgun."Margaret!" Lillian shouted, running through the small house. "Mom! Grace! Dad!"No answer.Nathaniel pulled out his phone, called Gerald, called Victoria, called the police.Vanessa stood in the living room, staring at the lipstick on the wall, her face white."This is my mother's lipstick," Vanessa whispered. "Shade 401. She always wore 401. She said it was the only red that looked like real blood."Lillian turned to her. "Vanessa, where wou
Too late, Ex. NOW WATCH ME RISE Chapter 67: The Batch
The FDA audit was not routine.Lillian knew it the moment Dr. Patel called her at 10 p.m. that night, after the disastrous, beautiful family dinner where Grace met Margaret and Edward cried into his wine and Nathaniel learned he had a half-sister."Lillian, it's Dr. Patel," he said, his voice tight. "The FDA found the contaminated batch. Not the one from your locker. A different one. Same lot number, P. Brooks, but distributed to three uptown pharmacies, including Grace's pharmacy. Three patients hospitalized with adverse reactions. One is a child."Lillian sat up in bed in her new apartment, her two plants on the sill dark in the moonlight."Is Grace okay?" she asked immediately."Grace is fine, she didn't take them, she brought them back when she saw the lot number on the news," Dr. Patel said. "But Lillian — the FDA investigator wants to talk to you tomorrow. They think you knew about this batch and didn't report it.""I did report it," Lillian said. "I reported the bottle in my lo
Too late, Ex. NOW WATCH ME RISE Chapter 66: The Dinner
Margaret Harper had not hosted a dinner party in eight years.Not since Edward left the second time, not since Lillian married Nathaniel, not since her house became a place where people cried in kitchens.Now, at 7 p.m. on a Thursday, her small dining table was set for eight people with mismatched plates, and she was having a panic attack in the pantry."Lillian, I can't do this," Margaret whispered, clutching Lillian's arm as Lillian tried to arrange cutlery. "Edward is in my living room talking to Catherine Brooks like they are old friends, which they are not, they are old enemies, and Nathaniel is in my bathroom washing his hands for the fifth time, and Grace — Grace is here, Lillian, my daughter I gave up twenty-one years ago is sitting on my couch holding a locket—""Mom," Lillian said quietly, kneeling so they were eye-level in the pantry, just like she had knelt with Priya in the courtyard. "You forced William to write a clause to protect me because you didn't trust this family
Too late, Ex. NOW WATCH ME RISE Chapter 65: Grace
Grace Harper Brooks was twenty-one, a third-year nursing student at uptown university — the university that had once tried to block Lillian's accreditation because of Arthur Vance.She had Margaret's eyes, William's nose, Edward's serious mouth, and Lillian's habit of biting her lip when she was nervous.She arrived at Global Care at 6:55 a.m., five minutes early, holding two coffees, wearing old scrubs that were actually stained, not performatively stained like Vanessa's first pair.Lillian was already there, having not slept, holding two coffees of her own.They stared at each other across the storage-room office for a long time."You look like Mom," Grace said finally, her voice shaking."You look like Dad," Lillian said. "Both of them. Which is confusing."Grace laughed, a short, nervous laugh that sounded exactly like Margaret's."I grew up with the Hendersons," Grace said, sitting down, handing Lillian a coffee. "They told me I was adopted when I was ten. They were kind. They ar
Too late, Ex. NOW WATCH ME RISE Chapter 64: The Locket
Lillian sat on the floor of William's study, holding the locket, her back against the desk where Patricia had once sipped her tea and threatened her with vitamins.The photos were old, faded, but clear.Margaret, young, maybe twenty-two, laughing on a picnic blanket.Edward Harper, young, maybe twenty-three, in army uniform, holding a baby wrapped in a white blanket, his face serious and proud and terrified all at once.A baby that was not Lillian. Lillian had seen her own baby photos. She had a full head of dark hair at birth. This baby was bald, tiny, with Margaret's eyes and William's nose.William's nose.The words hit her like ice water.William Brooks's nose. The same nose Nathaniel had. The same nose Patricia had.Lillian's hands shook so hard the locket rattled.She closed it and shoved it into her bag and ran out of the estate, not bothering to lock the study, not bothering to close the front door.She drove to Margaret's house, her knuckles white on the wheel.Margaret was i
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