Saddest Romance Novels & Stories

The madness of falling for someone who would tear the world apart just to keep you. That’s dark romance. A beautiful tragedy you’ll never escape.

As if he were rediscovering me pulse by pulse. I sank into the kiss, my fingers digging into his shirt as if he might vanish if I let him go. The kiss grew deeper, but it wasn’t urgent. It was aching, filled with all the things we’d never said. With all the years of regret. With all the years of love that never went away. When we broke apart, we were still close, breathing each other in. “You still feel the same,” I whispered. “So do you,” he said. He traced his thumb along my cheek, wiping away a tear I hadn’t even known was falling. The gentleness of the gesture was my undoing.

How could the two people I trusted most, outside of my family, destroy my life so easily? Anonymous Pov One Week Later It was a week before the conference in St. Louis and Sade was struggling through another bout of depression. She had been seeing her therapist, Trish, but despite the sessions, she still hadn't fully settled with Isla’s so-called apology. Marco's relentless harassment only made things worse, threatening her boyfriend, warning her about having their kids around him and sending menacing messages. Sade couldn't comprehend his rage when he had been the one to cheat on her with her best friend for six months, and she hadn't even reacted with such fury.

Sophia's POV Blood kept pouring from my throat. I wiped my mouth again and again, but it was useless. I should've called an ambulance, but the thought of it made me laugh bitterly. I had no money left, not after pouring every cent I had into Molly's treatment. Jared hadn't sent a cent since the day she was admitted to the hospital. Through the haze of pain and nausea, I couldn't help but wonder how my marriage had reached this point. Once, our story had felt like something out of a romance drama.

My heart hurting. Oh God, Rai, you should’ve told me that you were sick. I would’ve stayed by your side and been there with you to make you suffer less. How could I live now, Rai? I couldn’t feel you anymore. How could I live in a world without you, Rai? My heart wrenched. Half of me died with you, Rai. How could my greatest love bring this much pain? How could my greatest love be my worst heartbreak? Please, God, just kill me now. I couldn’t take this anymore. Let me be with you, Rai.

I already knew he was going to leave me forever, but deep inside I hoped he wouldn't because I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. "Mia-" he paused and closed his eyes dejectedly. His silence was increasing my anxiety, and my heart was pounding with fear. I just stared at him motionlessly, terrified of losing him and falling back into darkness. He took a deep breath and continued, holding my hand. "I know you love me a lot, but I'm sorry because I can't love you because I still love my Sofia. I've been living without her for a century. Mia, Sofia is my entire world, and I love her. Although you have a special place in my heart, I will never love you as much as I love Sofia."

He is the one I want to grow old with. Then he is silent. He is gone. I feel his last breath leave his body. I watch him die and feel my heart shatter. I look up at Adam. He is still. Sabrina is, too. She is standing there, smiling. She is enjoying this. Sadness sweeps over me. I never thought this would happen. Never. Never in a million years. I am the alpha's mate. And he just died in my arms.

“We’re still looking for Lola. We hope that she’ll be willing to help even though she isn’t his mate anymore.” That is the thing about rejections. Unlike what people read in books, once someone is rejected and they accept, there are no takebacks. Once the mate bond has been broken, that’s the end of it. There is no way to bring it back to life. Every time I’m reminded of what I lost, my hate for Sadie grows. She’s dead, but that doesn’t change the fact that she already damaged my relationship before she left this world. “I see” is Elder Shaun’s only response.

My heart is breaking watching my best friend's soul wither away. Now, it's been three days sense she colasped in her room and she has yet to wake up. Dr. Solum is completely baffled with what is going on with her and is stuck just like the rest of us struggling to find an answer. Shawn thinks he might have an idea of what is going on with her and it has to do with that day in the library. He thinks Sarah and the vampire are mates because everything he read in the one chapter matches perfectly to what Sarah said she went through. Sarah had told me that after the jolt of electricty went through her, she felt different alomost as if she had found her soulmate. Still she didn't want to believe w

He wanted to know where that sadness came from and somehow, without realizing it, he wanted to be the one who made it disappear. His eyes remained glued to his phone as if his life depended on it. The screen illuminated his face in the dim room while he slowly paced across the floor. All of this… because of a picture. Just a simple picture she had sent him randomly. Nothing extraordinary. Yet he had been staring at it for almost an hour. His thumb hovered over the screen as he reread her last message again. “See? I told you I'm alone and was about to go to sleep.” Something about the way she confirmed it—something simple, something casual—made his heart swell unexpectedly.