Delayed Regrets: He Regretted Only After Her Death Novel

Aiden Grant marries Vivian Linden on the same day Tiana Linden's heart stops. In her final moments, Tiana desperately tries to entrust her daughter Daisy to Aiden, but he coldly tears up the paternity test, rejecting the child as unworthy of the Grant family. He is unaware that Daisy is deaf in one ear and cannot tolerate harsh sounds, nor does he know that Tiana is dying of terminal lung cancer. When Daisy falls gravely ill with a high fever and pleads with Aiden to save her mother, he cruelly throws the child into a storm rather than help. Tiana's sole purpose becomes ensuring Daisy's survival. She crawls to gather scattered painkillers, driven by maternal desperation. Aiden rushes to the hospital as the wedding ceremony concludes, frantically attempting to revive Tiana with a defibrillator. When the monitor flatlines and declares her dead, panic overtakes him. Later, people witness the Grant Company president kneeling in a garden of blooming eustoma flowers, weeping as he confesses his longing for Tiana.