When I Disappeared, He Regretted It Novels & Stories

“Watch me.” He turned away and went back to packing. That was it. There wasn't any apology. Neither was there any regret. I couldn’t breathe. The walls felt like they were closing in on me as my heart pounded violently against my ribs. And all I could think about was Rhett. After putting me the last time we saw, he’d vanished without a word. It was as if he’d disappeared from the face of the earth. The thought of nothing seeing him ever again broke me.

"You are the most calculating woman I have ever met, and I want you out of my sight before I say something we both regret. Don't think this night changes anything, it only makes me despise you more." ​I watched him walk toward the door, his shoulders tense and his rejection final, and I stayed there in the silence of the room that had never truly been ours, listening to his footsteps fade down the hallway. I looked at the ceiling and wondered why I had spent three years begging for scraps of affection from a man who genuinely believed I was a monster, and for the first time, the answer didn't matter because I knew I wasn't going to stay to hear it again.

I cried in a loud voice and for the first time I regretted every step I took, I regretted pushing him away, I regretted not spending quality time with him. I regretted not listen to Tanya, I would have enjoy my time with him until the last day but today Frank was gone and gone forever. I scream my lungs out. Everyone was looking at me confusedly except for Arturo, he came squatted before me telling me that Frank was alive but I did not accept it. I told him he was saying those words so that I would feel pain any longer but it is not going to work besides Frank has gone leaving me alone on this planet.

The tears I had been holding back finally came, pouring down my face as I wept for the child I had lost, for the love that had turned to ash. “I already regret everything,” I whispered through my sobs. “But not this. Never this.” Marcus didn’t say another word. He turned and disappeared into the shadows, leaving me alone in the clearing, my heart shattered beyond repair. I stayed there for what felt like hours, curled up in the dirt, the weight of my decisions pressing down on me like a boulder.

Or maybe I’d never let myself truly think about how Luna had lost both of hers. And yet she still believed in second chances—for me, for him. Vincent had pulled me aside also. He didn’t lecture me. He didn’t even tell me I’d done the wrong thing. He just said, “When time runs out, regret doesn’t knock. It stays.” Now here I was. In front of the man who had disappeared from my life before I could even form a memory of him. He looked older than I imagined. Paler. Weaker. But his eyes… they were mine.

After successfully completing the mission, I return to my original world. I awaken from my vegetative state to find my now-grown children waiting at my bedside. My husband pulls me into a tight embrace. My parents and mother-in-law are overcome with tears of joy. Just as I'm about to say goodbye to the System and choose to remain in my original world, a woman who looks almost exactly like me pushes open the door. My children rush over to her, calling her "Mommy" affectionately. Everyone looks at me awkwardly. The woman gives me a provocative smile. I stop the System. "Let me think about whether I want to stay here."

“Even when we were kids. I was always there… always trying… and you never looked at me.” I stared at him. “You didn’t even know I existed.”His voice broke again. “I was angry…Stupid. I thought if you were gone… then none of us would have you..” My stomach twisted. “But the moment it happened…” he continued, shaking his head. “I knew I made a mistake. The biggest mistake of my life.” Tears streamed down his face.“I regretted it every single day.” My hands trembled. “That’s why I disappeared,” he said. “I couldn’t face you. I faked my death. I stayed away… watching from a distance.”

His hand tightened around my waist as I rose slightly toward him, and for those few seconds, the rest of the world disappeared. My mother disappeared. The unanswered questions disappeared. Even my father's death felt far away. There was only Adrian. And the terrifying realization that the man I'd promised myself I would never want was becoming the one person I couldn't stop thinking about. When we finally separated, his forehead rested against mine. Both of us were breathing harder than we had been a moment earlier. “You're going to regret that,” I whispered. “Probably.” “You're not supposed to agree.” A faint smile appeared.

Not because she had forced me to trust her, and not because I hadn’t known what she was capable of, but because I had wanted so desperately to believe that she had changed. I had chosen her. I had believed her. And I had thrown Calista away to do it. My eyes closed as a painful breath escaped my lips, and for the first time since I had received the photographs, I felt something far worse than anger settle inside me. Regret. “Get out,” I muttered. My assistant froze. “Sir?” “Leave.” He didn’t argue or ask another question before stepping away, and once the office door closed behind him, I was finally alone with the truth I had been trying so hard to avoid.

"What makes you think you're worthy of Zayn?" He thought hard about her question and he said the first thing in mind "Zayn likes me, and that's all that matt..." "No it's not." her lowered voice came out even more scarier and hurt than ever "That's not all that matters and that's not all that should matter. I trusted you Will. If you think it's okay to enter the deepest part of a person's heart and then suddenly disappear without a word then you're wrong." Will's head dropped as he felt a dagger put to his chest, his disappearance nine years ago was still his biggest regret.