Loss Stories

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Leaving behind everything she's ever known, Emilee enters a world of high glamour and even higher stakes. The new freedom that comes with being a part of the Famoux is intoxicating, but behind the perfect image lies an ugly truth - being popular is a matter of life or death. ***** Out of the wreckage of environmental collapse, the country of Delicatum emerged. Its most popular celebrities are the Famoux, uniquely beautiful stars of a reality TV show called the Fishbowl. In a world still recovering from catastrophe, they provide a 24/7 distraction. Sixteen-year-old Emilee Laurence is obsessed with the Famoux - they provide a refuge from her troubled home life and the bullies at school. When she receives an unimaginable offer to become a member herself, she takes it. But soon she realizes that fame can be deadly... Content and trigger warning: This story depicts mental health issues and contains scenes of violence. [[word count: 350,000-400,000 words]]

An anthology of stories about the invisible strings that tie us down... and what happens when they break. When you're born, a thread ties you to home. Move away, and it thins. Go too far, and it snaps. Each story follows someone new. A boy who can't remember his mother's laugh. A girl who drives 14 hours to feel nothing in her childhood kitchen. A man who cut his own thread and never told his son why. Some threads stretch. Some fray. Some are gone before you notice. How far would you go before you couldn't find your way back?

Book One - Regina Series Stolen at four. Forged in blood. Liliana De Rosa barely remembers a life before pain. Torn from her family at a young age, she grew up in chains-manipulated, tortured, and forced to believe the people who loved her most had abandoned her. Twelve years later, she is unrecognizable. Passed between rival mafia families, some who taught her to survive, and others who molded her into a weapon, Liliana has become both lost and lethal. Behind the mask of an innocent schoolgirl hides a girl with blood on her hands-a girl who has forgotten how to simply exist without violence. But when her abusive guardians are killed in a mysterious car crash, her world shatters again. Liliana discovers the truth: She was never abandoned. She is the daughter of the most feared mafia boss alive. She has seven older brothers who have been searching for her since the day she was taken. Now, reunited with the infamous De Rosa family, Liliana must face a terrifying reality: she is loved, wanted... but no longer the little girl they remember. She is broken. Dangerous. And feared even within the underworld. What happens when her family learns the truth-that their sweet sorella is one of the most ruthless assassins alive, her name whispered in terror across continents? Liliana is not just a De Rosa. She is The Regina Assassin. A killer. A survivor. And a girl who must learn if love can heal what violence has created. Follow her story through pain and love. Liliana Donatella De Rosa. Started 08/25 Finished ??? Rankings #badass - 1🥇 #badbitch - 1 🥇 #mexico - 1🥇 #colombiamafia - 1🥇 #loss - 1🥇 #spain - 2 🥈 #albanian - 2 🥈 #assassin - 2 🥈 #mafiaprincess - 2 🥈 #Italian - 2 🥈 #russianmafia - 2 🥈 #loyalty - 2 🥈

Elani Covington always understood sacrifice. Raised by parents whose love survived long before power ever touched their family name, she grew up believing loyalty meant protecting the people you love - even when it costs you everything. With only two months left before graduating university, Elani thought she still had time to decide who she wanted to become outside of her family's legacy. Then grief changed everything. Now, with her family's future hanging by a thread, Elani is forced into a marriage that could either save them all or destroy what remains. She knows the rules of their world. The silence. The bloodshed. The deals made behind closed doors. But knowing the game and wanting to be part of it were always two different things. Alessio Moretti learned that lesson young. Sent from Italy to oversee the western branch of the Sicilian mafia, Alessio was raised between the softness of his mother's love and the ruthless expectations of his father. Quiet, calculating, and impossible to read, he became the kind of man people underestimated until it was too late. A charming face hiding a deadly hand. With his father dying and war brewing beneath the surface of the city, Alessio is left with a choice that could cost him everything his family built. And somewhere between grief, loyalty, and a marriage neither of them truly chose, two lives become tied together in ways neither of them could've prepared for. Because in their world, love was never the dangerous part. Survival was.

A sacred bond of togetherness, compassion and love. Completed with the symbols of their love. Likin kaha jata hain na bura waqt rehta hain... Na achha waqt . . . Shivaay and Anika had 2 kids, were married 8 years... and divorced for 7. What caused the two Ishqbaaz whose love was exemplified to separate? How were they living their own lives that are still intertwined? How were they parenting and what was the lives of their kids like? Where did their love get lost? More importantly, can Shivaay and Anika become ShivIka once again? Dive in to find the answers Note: This story is set in the real universe (not redux)

Freya and Malachi used to be inseparable. They were best friends for over nine years, growing up side by side through primary school and everything after. But somewhere along the way, things fell apart badly, and now, in Year 11, they act like strangers. Malachi became popular without even trying. Girls are always around him, but he is not the player everyone assumes he is losing her hit him harder than anyone thinks too. Freya, on the other hand, changed completely after losing him. She became quiet, anxious, and withdrawn, carrying more pain than anyone realised. Her dad, her only living parent, died. And Malachi had no idea.

The Pride Lands, a land known for its peace, harmony, and determination to uphold the teachings and practices of the Circle of Life. However, in order to protect and maintain such peace, someone must carry the burden of the Pride Lands' dirty work...

❝ɪɴ ᴀ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ᴀɴʏᴛʜɪɴɢ, ʙᴇ ᴋɪɴᴅ❞ 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐒 has always treated everyone with kindness, determined to take on the world. Even though life hasn't always treated her fairly, she has never let its cruelty taint her pretty smile and good heart. She's spent years trying to prove that a person's worth isn't bound to their past and she'll do exactly that by attending Stonebridge Academy. In a school surrounded by the elite, she's never felt more out of place in her life. Yet, it only takes one boy and a library to make her feel like she's exactly where she's supposed to be. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐎 𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 looks for trouble everywhere he goes. He's messy and twisted and a pain in the ass. An immature nightmare, as they call him. He wasn't always. The cards he's been dealt with, from a young age, have been nothing but cruel. He's been stuck in his past, his pain; he's ready to give up, to let go. Plagued by secrets and memories and mistakes, he's never felt more lost in his life. Until he's inexplicably drawn to the newest arrival at Stonebridge Academy. It only takes spending time in a library with one girl, sharing kind words and lingering touches, to feel like life is worth living again. ❝ᴀ ʙɪɢ ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴡʜᴏ ɪ ᴀᴍ ɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ɪ ᴀᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴀɴʏᴍᴏʀᴇ❞ ♥︎ Published: March 27th, 2025

Aarohi Malhotra survived the accident that shattered her world - but surviving was never the same as living. Behind her cold silence and carefully built walls hides a girl haunted by forgotten memories, trauma, fear, and emotions she no longer knows how to face. To the world, she appears strong, intelligent, and untouchable. But beneath that control lives a loneliness she quietly carries every day. Then Arjun Sharma enters her life. What begins with misunderstandings and hatred slowly turns into something far deeper - a love built on patience, understanding, and staying beside someone even when they are falling apart. Because sometimes healing does not come from fixing a person. Sometimes, it comes from simply having someone who refuses to leave. But the past Aarohi buried long ago refuses to stay hidden. As forgotten memories slowly begin to surface, her life turns into a dangerous psychological maze filled with secrets, manipulation, obsession, betrayal, emotional conflicts, and truths powerful enough to destroy everything around her. Yet this story is not only about Aarohi. Every character carries their own fears, wounds, insecurities, coping mechanisms, and silent battles. Through different relationships and perspectives, the story explores trauma, healing, attachment, emotional struggles, and the complicated reality of human emotions - because people are rarely simply "right" or "wrong." Sometimes, they are just trying to survive life in the only way they know how to.

What happens to two people when a sudden child death happens? Do they manage to cope or not? Meet Dixie West. A perfectionist, top lawyer, and blunt person who'd be willing to call out your imperfections but slow to your emotions. Meet Cameron West (AKA Cam) a kind soul, and head of the fire department. While putting out fires might be easy, he can't put out the ones with his wife. Do they stay together, or get a divorce? Read to find out!

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1917 Having been recently relieved from a brutal stint at the front lines, Thomas and a small unit of medics are stationed at a secondary casualty station. Thomas's cynical shell is cracked when a four-year-old girl named Rosie is brought in. The sole survivor of a direct hit on her family home, she has lost both legs below the knee and her parents in a single heartbeat. Major Clarkson, recognizing Thomas's meticulous (if distant) nature, assigns him to her constant care. Initially, Thomas resents the "nanny" work but eventually something shifts. For the first time in his life, Thomas isn't performing for a master or scheming for a promotion; he is simply needed. He uses his "acquired" luxuries-chocolate and extra blankets-to coax her back to life. As Rosie stabilizes, the camp receives a shipment of primitive prosthetic limbs. While the surgeons are busy with the endless stream of dying soldiers, Thomas takes it upon himself to be Rosie's legs. In the quiet hours between bombardments, he teaches her to balance, then to shuffle, and finally to walk. In Rosie's stubborn refusal to give up, Thomas finds a reflection of his own survival instinct-but hers is pure, untainted by the bitterness that has defined him. She becomes the only thing in France that makes him feel like a "good man." Thomas realizes that as a Sergeant, he is bound to the mud until he is either dead or "broken." Desperate to stay with her, or at least be sent back to England where he might find a way to track her down, he looks at the flickering lights of the enemy line. The shot that shatters his hand is his ticket home-and his greatest shame. As he is loaded onto a transport, he catches one last glimpse of Rosie watching from a distance, standing tall on the legs he taught her to use. He leaves behind the only person he has ever truly loved without conditions, carrying a permanent scar that will forever remind him of the cost of his humanity.

Book 3 in the Moonwalker Pack series. Be sure you have read book 1- The Beta's Daughter, book 2-The Alpha's Son before reading this one. War is inevitable for the Moonwalker pack, but with the Ascension of new leaders, things will not be handled as they once were. Azariah and Micah have difficult decisions to make that will impact not only their loved ones, but the entire pack's well-being. Everyone has something at stake in this final book. Jace and Azariah's newfound family. Amber and Micah's future. Noah and Ryan must decide rather to stay and fight, or return to a pack that shunned them and help rebuild. Finn and Priya have missing pack members, and their time is running out to find them. Becky will need to decide how far she's willing to go to save Zane, if he's even worth saving. And good old Malcomb has a reputation to uphold, and a war to win so he can prove himself to his family and Alpha. Even the Moon Goddess herself has secrets that she must reveal but is the price too high for her to pay? In this final book, everything will come full circle. The only question is, who will end up victorious, and who will still be standing at the end.

Farewell is a haunting, existential piece about the weight of time, the pain of growing up, and the heavy silence of a final departure.

To be disillusioned is to feel disappointed, let down, or disenchanted after discovering that a person, ideal, or situation is not as good, true, or flawless as you once believed. Cortessa Diaz and Legend Noir experience disillusionment firsthand as their first loves show their true colors. Now, they've built walls they allow no one to break through, until they meet each other. Will they learn how to love again? Or will that feeling of being disillusioned haunt them forever? Also based on the song "Disillusioned" by Daniel Caesar.

4 stories about loving, timing, loss and second chances. A gripping anthology

Arnold never imagined his first year as a squire at Whitefield Academy would end in blood. When the woman he loves was kidnapped by Ha-Kochot, the evil sect terrorizing his homeland, he faces an impossible choice: embrace a forbidden power that could rival the gods themselves, or watch another person he loves die. Haunted by the massacre that claimed his entire class, Arnold embarks on a desperate search for the greater power Luke mentioned a shocking revelation that will place him on par with the divine. But as he delves deeper into the mysteries of the Word Technique, he discovers that true strength demands a price. Will he find salvation in faith, or will his soul be condemned in his quest to rescue Elaine? In a world where words hold the power of creation and destruction, where angels and demons wage war through mortal vessels, Arnold must decide: Will this be his last journey to sainthood, or will he lose himself to darkness in the name of love?

In Ignaria, it is said that every century four souls are born who shape the fate of the kingdom: The Crown, The Light, The Storm and The Ash. This is their story - long before they ever met. R

Hong thought love would be the hardest choice he'd ever have to make. He was wrong. When tragedy tears his world apart, Hong is forced into a marriage born of sacrifice, while the man he loves disappears into the shadows searching for him. Years pass. A daughter is raised by a father who loves her as his own, a brother sleeps through five lost years, and a family learns that healing is never as simple as waking up. But fate has one more cruel test in store. As old loves return, new lives are born, and heartbreaking choices threaten to destroy everything they have rebuilt, each member of the family discovers that love isn't measured by blood, promises, or even time. It is measured by the people who choose to stay, to forgive, and to hope. From impossible sacrifices and second chances to laughter-filled homes and children who become the light after the darkest nights, Beneath the Brightest Star is a sweeping story about grief, redemption, family, and a love that never truly fades. Because sometimes the brightest stars are the ones who continue to guide us... even after they're gone.