Best Regret Stories & Novels Collection

I was married to Finn Murphy for five years, listening to him drunkenly cry my half-sister Isabella's name every single night. She had been sent to the Moretti family in my place and died in a shootout. Finn blamed me for her death every day, believing I had stolen Isabella's life and destroyed their love.

Then Finn died in a gunfight protecting me. With his last breath, he begged me to stop clin...

My fiancé dumped me on his best friend like I was a piece of unwanted inventory.
"Her brain's broken. She doesn't remember you. You take care of her." — The most ironic line I've ever heard, right before I blacked out.
So, I, the infamous "Steel Rose" of the boxing world, decided to play along. I moved into his friend Jordan's—the billionaire's—penthouse and started acting like a scared little bun...

The champagne in my glass had gone flat, but I barely noticed. From our VIP box at the Vienna State Opera House, I watched my husband lean close to the pianist Lucia—close enough that she was practically sitting in my lap.

Five years of marriage. Five years of playing the perfect Habsburg wife, smiling through charity galas and dinner parties, pretending I didn't see the way other women looked at...

I woke up in his tent thinking I'd finally gotten everything I'd ever dreamed of.

Six years. Six entire years of making myself into whoever Noah wanted me to be, giving up my UCLA full-ride scholarship, planning to follow him to Boston, convincing myself this was what "love" looked like.

Until I accidentally saw the messages on the iPad.

"Had to get it done before school starts."
"Jade's my tra...

For nine years, I loved Jake, heir to the Steel Knights MC, like a fool—until I saw him tangled up with my own cousin in the garage… while she was carrying his child. They laughed at me, called me "just a mechanic," treated me like their loyal dog. But I'll show them—the most underestimated roses grow the sharpest thorns. From Texas to California, from a cast-out nobody to the underground racing q...

"I am an Alpha, and I don’t want someone like you as my mate. Remember this, I, Alpha Froylan of the Rigorou Mountain Pack, reject you, Vienna, as my mate."

Those words destroyed her.

Vienna, the cursed child of the devil, had lived her life as nothing but a slave... mocked, beaten, and cast aside by the pack that should have protected her. But the cruelest wound came from fate itself: being bou...

I heard my fiancé Henry's laughter echoing down that hotel hallway.

"I only went after Maya to piss off Dennis."

Eight years. I chased Dennis for eight years.

When I finally gave up on him, when Henry spent years pursuing me, when he proposed with fireworks lighting up the entire beach—I thought I'd finally found someone who loved me.

Three weeks until the wedding.

I flew to his city with his...

I saved Frank from an avalanche. He paid me back by locking me at home with a pregnancy monitor and a salt-free diet. When he announced to the world on television that he was single, causing me to miscarry in a blizzard that very night, I knew this man was beyond saving.
So, I made him drink a potion that erases memory. Now, he has completely forgotten me, his wife, and our dead child.
And my grea...

Three months after I died, he used his Grammy acceptance speech to shame me before thirty million people. He accused me of ethical violations, of seducing him, then running off with his money and our dog, leaving him with massive medical debt.
Little did he know, our dog Max and I were both gone, taken by the same cancer.
At the stroke of midnight, as his words still hung in the air, my Instagram ...

At eleven p.m., I'm staring at the charity foundation's financial report, barely able to focus on the numbers—Theron is "networking" again, but for three years now, his "networking" has always involved another woman. Then my phone rings. It's Tommy, the paparazzo: "Mrs. Sterling, your husband's on his private yacht, all over some 22-year-old blonde intern!"

Thirty-seven times. Have you ever tried...

Trigger Warning!!!
This is a dark romance novel featuring morally grey characters.
Reader's discretion is advised.
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"You were born for me. You waited for me. The moment you came into this world, you cried for me, and you will keep crying for me until your last breath, Ixora."

Drexton Blackthorn had his bloody, thirst-filled eyes on a couple for the sins they committed. He swore to make t...

A rich heir and a part-time barista—same world? Not even close.
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Isabella struggles in Christopher's arms. "Let go of me! Two years ago, you were just toying with me. Didn't your friends say I smelled like poverty? What do you want now?"
Desire smolders in Christopher's eyes, his voice rough with restraint. "Behave, or I can't promise what I'll do..."

Three years ago, I was an 18-year-old tattoo prodigy named Juliet, getting ready for the once-every-three-years Tattoo Masters Competition, it was literally my dream stage. But two weeks before the competition, I got attacked by a rogue wolf who brutally crushed my right hand. What made it even worse? My fiancé Damien showed up at the hospital to tell me he'd sensed his fated mate, and it was his ...

They say I should just accept my fate. At thirty-one, I'm a walking cliché: a failed career, endless disastrous blind dates. My life was going nowhere—until I discovered a secret that let me communicate with the past. I found a way to save the boy who died for me when we were seventeen.
But this second chance comes with a cruel condition: to rewrite history and keep him alive, I must make him fall...

I got switched at birth with a billionaire's daughter. At forty-five, they finally found me.
The Montgomery family invited me to their Aspen resort for Thanksgiving. I thought maybe I'd finally have the fancy family I always wondered about.
But Delphine, the fake daughter who stole my life? She looked me up and down and called me "authentic." Said my ski gear was "cheap" and unsafe for "advanced s...

"I don't like her. That's the truth."

Those crushing words from my own husband shattered the last remnants of hope I'd clung to during our two-year political marriage. Sebastien Grey, the powerful Alpha heir, made it clear that our union meant nothing—I was just a convenient arrangement to protect my failing pack. But what he doesn't know is that I'm carrying his child, a secret that could change...

His hand slammed against the wall beside my head, his gaze burning into mine.
“Tell me, Little Wolf… you feel it too, don’t you?”
My breath hitched. “Feel what?”
“The bond,” he growled, leaning closer, his lips brushing against my ear. “The pull that doesn’t care you belong to him.”
“You’re my mate’s brother,” I whispered, my voice trembling.
His smile was sharp, dangerous. “Exactly. Which means I...

When I was twenty, Samuel called off our engagement and chose Stella instead.

After the engagement party ended, he told me: "Stella saved my life once. Now her father wants to marry her off to that disgusting old man Harrison Burke. I can't just stand by and watch."

He said to give him three years to repay his debt of gratitude, and after three years he would come back to me.

Like a fool, I wai...

At the Rossini family gala, I clutched my wine glass, listening to Patrick chat with the senator's daughter about politics and business, without even the right to join their conversation. It wasn't until I overheard him in his study late that night calling me "just a plaything from peasant stock" that I realized how ridiculous my six years of devotion had been.

After fleeing to Los Angeles, I tho...

The two loves of my life—one died because of him, the other wishes me dead. My seven-year-old daughter only wanted to make a lamp for her "afraid-of-the-dark" daddy, but died from electrocution instead. She'll never know that her father was using this very opportunity to plan a new life with his mistress. When I held my terminal diagnosis in my hands, I cried silently. Look, Patty—Mommy will be co...

Seven months pregnant and finally happy, I thought my past was buried. Then I walked into that upscale baby boutique and saw him—Donovan Ashworth, the billionaire who kept me as his secret for ten years. Standing beside him was Charlotte, his picture-perfect fiancée, flashing a diamond that could buy my house.
But Charlotte had her own agenda. A fake pregnancy. A desperate plan. And when she deman...

For eight years, he's been my Don—my guardian—giving me everything but love. I throw myself into another guy's arms for a kiss on purpose, just to watch the rage ignite in his eyes. Would a guardian really shake with fury over his ward's kiss?

At my eighteenth birthday party, I blurt out "I love you" in front of everyone, but he crushes my eight-year fixation with two brutal words: "Disgusting."
...

On my 25th birthday, the doctor handed me my death sentence—stage four pancreatic cancer, six months to live. The man I’d loved for seventeen years was flirting with his secretary while I coughed up blood and collapsed. He mocked me when chemo took my hair: “Even your hair is fake.” When I secretly transferred my last savings into his sports recovery fund—the very money that could’ve saved me—he t...

“We are divorced, Adams.” She sighed and wanted to walk away, but he held her.

“It doesn't matter.” He answered, his voice laced with determination.

“I don't love you anymore.”

“That doesn't matter either. What matters is that I want you, and there's nothing you or anyone can do about it.”


Alicia's life has been a series of ups and downs. She suffered abuse from her husband and his fam...

Being the granddaughter and only blood relative of one of the most powerful Alphas alive should’ve made Samara the princess of her pack if not heir to the Alpha throne— adored, protected, and living the dream every female werewolf craves.

But that wasn't the case with Samara. Why?

Well because she's the product of two bloodlines that should never have crossed paths, an abomination — a curse in ...

The Barrett family and Prescott family agreed to ally with each other 20 years ago. The son of the Barrett family was to marry the first daughter of the Prescott family. But what happens when Mason refuses to marry the unknown girl his family chose for him?

In an attempt to escape this alliance, he ends up marrying the second daughter of the Prescott family, Raven.

This causes the first daughter...

My name is Isabella, Silicon Valley's top psychologist, and I've suffered from emotional detachment disorder for twenty-two years.

On Valentine's Day, I left work early to surprise my husband, only to walk in on him and my stepsister Selena having sex in our bed. Three years of marriage, destroyed by the most grotesque betrayal I could witness.

"You're just like your mother, never able to keep a...

I'm dead, trapped as a ghost who can only follow my husband around.

Watching him examine my dismembered corpse at the garbage dump, his coldness shattered my heart—this man couldn't even recognize his own wife's wedding ring. When I heard him tell someone that my death was "convenient, saved him the hassle of divorce," rage nearly tore my soul apart.

But when I followed him back to his car and s...

I thought I was the happiest woman in the world... until I clicked on that video.

The moment the screen lit up, my entire world came crashing down.

The woman on the bed was Calista - that girl who grew up with us since we were kids. And that hand caressing her skin was wearing the wedding ring I had personally put on Matteo's finger.

"I've missed you so much..."
"You drive me crazy, baby..."

T...

I'm dead, but I'm begging you—please save my baby girl.
My eight-year-old daughter Grace sits by the window every night, wearing my rescue jacket that's way too big for her, waiting for mommy to come home. She doesn't know I died in that helicopter crash. She doesn't know she's about to be thrown into foster care.
And she has no idea that her father is Senator William Hawthorne.
Grace clutches my ...

“I am Maya, the first daughter of Alpha Darius of the Ashbourne Pack, and I am damned… damned by the Moon Goddess, and an embarrassment to my father’s legacy.”
Born wolfless, her life had always been full of shame. While others shifted under the full moon, she suffered through painful heat. Her father, a powerful Alpha, saw her as a disgrace. And when he finally cast her out of the pack, she had n...

I kept a list. Ninety-eight times my husband chose another woman over me.

Missed birthdays, ruined anniversaries, broken promises—all for his "patient" Sophia, who seemed to have a medical emergency every time we had plans.

"It's just my job, Emma," he would say. "You understand."

Ryan thought he could have his cake and eat it too. He was wrong.

After an incident, I was determined to leave him...

Betrayed by her mate. Replaced by her best friend. Marked a traitor.

Her Alpha mate Kael stood by and did nothing while she was being ridiculed. Now that she's gone he's obsessed with control.

Selene Blackmoor was treated like a slave. She was the Luna, but her people never respected her because she was once an orphan. They said she never really belonged.

On her night of her execution, Selene...

James Brooke owner of Brooks and Co. company limited goes bankrupt.

In desperation, he accepts the offer of a merger with rock industries.

He thinks the merger is a simple one until he meets Missus rock and she tells him that's in order to save his company he must guarantee the rock family that Brooks and Co.

Mining Company Will be under their full control and that is by engaging his daughte...

I died for three days. My boyfriend got a new girlfriend in two.
She's wearing my pink cardigan, sitting at our first-date table, having a candlelit dinner with my Zane. My apron on her body, my sangria recipe on her lips, even our private nickname "Z" rolling off her tongue.
I'm Harper Wells, 20, Olive Garden server, killed in a car crash. She's Brielle Kim, 22, Instagram influencer, my perfect r...

"You put me away for 3 years, and now you took a blade for me. We're even now." Sean Winters' cold words hit harder than the knife Eve Carter just took for him. As blood soaks her white dress, she thinks this sacrifice might finally pay for the lies that destroyed them six years ago. But fate has one last cruelty—terminal cancer, six months to live. Now she must secure their daughter Grace's futur...

"What is the meaning of this?" I questioned still in disbelief. Where had it all gone wrong? We were happy, he respected me and so did I...I even fell in love with him so how could he do this to me?
"It's exactly what it says in the paper, Ciara"
"And what is that?" I stubbornly inquired.
Ryan had uttered those words I so desperately dreaded,"I want a divorce, Ciara"
Ciara is the heiress to her fa...

"You drive me crazy," he said, voice low.
She swallowed. "Good."
"You're the most stubborn, frustrating woman I've ever met."
"And you're the most arrogant, cold man I've ever worked for."
And then he kissed her.
Ann Smith never meant to fall for her boss.
She just wanted to finish her internship, earn enough to care for her sick mother, and avoid drama. But that plan fell apart the moment she spi...

"Please, Lydia, give me a second chance. I swear, let me love you again." "Too late, Nathaniel, I have someone else now."
In a twisted tale of deceit and sacrifice, Lydia Milan, who hid her identity and family, endures a loveless marriage to handsome, wealthy Nathaniel King, who views her only as a blood source for his ailing ex.
Struggling against mistreatment, Lydia Milan finally demands a div...

"What the hell is this?! You were supposed to be dead five years ago, Olivia!" Hunter snarled, his rage sharper than any blade.
Olivia froze, her daughter’s tiny hand gripping hers. His words cut deeper than the accident that almost took her life. That night, the truth became undeniable—her husband had never loved her. He had only wished she stayed dead.
Once, Olivia Grace gave everything for Hunt...

"Katty," he moaned against my lips.
My world cracked.
One kiss was all it took to make Narda lose her breath and everything she thought she understood.
After a night of passion with Axle Carrington, Narda never imagined she would be hired to care for his grieving young son. Narda promised herself she would never cross the line. But living under the same roof as Axle Carrington meant sharing space,...

Vedika Sharma has spent her entire life standing on the right side of the law. As one of the youngest advocates in the city’s history to take down criminal empires, her reputation for fearlessness is unshakable — until she crosses Abhimaan Rathore.

A ruthless businessman with blood on his hands and secrets buried deeper than the graves he’s ordered, Abhimaan is used to getting everything he wants...

I thought marrying New York's most brilliant surgeon meant I had the perfect life. Then at his birthday party, I overheard the whispers—"Dr. Morrison could've married anyone." Thirty-two candles flickered, highlighting how I, a restaurant owner's daughter, never belonged. And that "For the future little Morrisons" onesie? It tore open a wound that never healed.
Eight months ago, I lost my daughter...

I thought I saved him.
Six years ago, Marcus came back from Afghanistan broken, traumatized, plagued by nightmares. I was his therapist, walked him through every panic attack, broke every professional rule to fall for my own patient.
"Age is just a number," he used to say. "You saved my life, Sophia."
Now he tells his friends I'm "stale," that I'm too old at thirty-six, that my face shows wrinkles...

The Ghost's Diary

My name is Alice Crawford. I just slit my wrists in the bathtub, and now I'm a fucking ghost.

"Sarah can finally rest in peace."

That's what my husband Nicolas said when he found my body—no crying, no breakdown, just a whispered statement with a cruel smile. That's when I realized my death was exactly what he wanted all along.

They say death brings release. Bullshit. In death...

Cancer was supposed to be my death sentence. Instead, it became my liberation.

I thought I had it all—wealth, status, a picture-perfect life in Greenwich's elite circles. Then came the diagnosis that would change everything: six months to live. But facing my final chapter, I uncovered a truth more devastating than any terminal illness—the man sleeping beside me was slowly killing my soul.

When...

What if your greatest sacrifice became your deepest regret?

Sarah Miller believed love meant unconditional support—abandoning her nursing degree, working double shifts, and funding her husband's coding dreams. When Jake's app hit one million downloads, she thought they'd finally taste success.

But success brought shame, not gratitude. Jake demanded a "low-key marriage," listed himself as "Single...

Damian vs Grace: aloof, handsome heir vs brave, soft‑looking girl who makes the first move.
They fall; a bad misunderstanding sends her overseas. He chases, crashes, forgets... Five years later, at a crowded crosswalk, their eyes lock—
"My heartbeat recognized you before I did."

“Go to hell!”
Would you believe parents could scheme to kill their own daughter?
It wasn't until my sister pushed me off the cliff that I accepted the truth—my parents and sister had always wanted me dead! They wanted me to suffer and die in place of their biological daughter, but I won't let them have their way!
My mysterious witch identity, my true origins, and my formidable magical powers—all a...

"Joanna, you can't escape!" Sebastian roars, gripping my wrist and yanking me against his chest. His lips crush mine—raw and searing—stealing the air from my lungs. I fight him, but my body betrays me, trapped between shame and a hunger I can't explain. Through tears, I whisper, "Am I just Elodie's ghost to you? Or something you own?" His eyes darken, silencing me with a kiss that leaves me hating...