Not So Silent Nights Novels & Stories

At the DeLuca Family banquet announcing its new advisor, Matteo said he was going to end nine years of secrecy and finally acknowledge our relationship in public. I stood in the back row of the banquet hall, so nervous I'd crumpled my prepared speech into a ball. Over nine years, I'd cleaned up the port books for him three times, negotiated two cross-border shipping routes, and taken a bullet for him. Everyone knew the DeLuca Family had a female advisor who never showed her face, but no one knew I was that woman. I thought that after tonight, I would finally stop being his shadow. Until the screen at the front of the banquet hall lit up. There was no photo of us. Instead, there was only a si

Only silence. Fade to black.

The night was silent. And Lucian still wasn't home.

She didn’t know then that some silences weren’t empty. They were waiting. Waiting for the moment they could break everything open.

I am leaving it with everything I am owed. Sixteen words. Three years of silence had given those sixteen words a weight that a thousand casual sentences never could have managed. She filed that away. Silence, she had learned, was not merely the absence of noise. It was compression. Everything unsaid building pressure behind a single, chosen moment. Dawn found her at the edge of a shallow valley. Below, a dirt road cut east to west unpaved, unmarked, the kind that didn't appear on official territory maps because it predated most of the current pack boundaries by a generation or more.

on a Tuesday, the peace bled out in the silent, spectral light of a security monitor. Anton woke to the empty space beside him in bed. This wasn’t unusual; Sabatine was a light sleeper, often drawn to the nocturnal quiet of the living room or her study. But the quality of the silence was wrong. It was a focused, electric silence, the kind that precedes a strike.

“ARE YOU sure you want to do this alone?” Amadeo’s voice echoed from behind. I sighed quietly and grimaced. This is going to be a long conversation. This got to be one of the most quiet I have ever seen Oakcross. You can hear even the slightest sound crickets make. The wind whispers so silently as if it does not want to wake anyone. There is no single star in the skies, and the moon shines brightest above all. Which I found hilarious and odd at the same time. What is about to happen tonight is far from being peaceful.

“Thea, I’m so sorry, I completely forgot to call you. The band for tonight cancelled so, it’s going to be a slow night. You’re free to have the evening off if you want.” “Thea can sing, she’s got the voice of an angel! No, not an angel, a siren. She would have people queuing in the streets.” Bellamy grinned. Thea shot him a glare. Abbi’s eyes widened, “Oh really, well I’m learning all kinds of new things about you tonight Thea.” “Uhm- I have stage freight.” Thea looked down at the ground. Abbi sighed, “Of course you do, well, do you want tonight off then?”

"Wish I had at least one quiet one in the house." "Yeah, rather than quiet, it's more like he can't speak at all," Lucas spoke now. And just when they were all trying to understand, he touched his lips and dropped on them. "He's voiceless." The ticking clock dominated the atmosphere for a minute. Dylan had heard of friendly dinners being ruined by someone wrong choice of words at the wrong time, never did he think his family would fall under such descriptions. "Way to go, mom." Bree mumbled underneath her breath and Dylan couldn't agree more.

The only sound was the soft music playing from the car's speakers. I gazed out the window, watching the dark city streets slip by. There was something peaceful about the quiet night. The night was calming and relaxing. It was like everything had come to a standstill. I decided then and there that late-night drives might just be my new favorite thing. I would love to do this again. Probably, with James. "Fuck, this silence is killing me," Romeo complained, breaking the silent. "It is peaceful," I muttered under my breath. "Yes, but I don't like it. I can't stand the silence especially when I have someone with me," He blurted out. "You know that? Let's just play a game."