Speak Graphic Novels & Stories

After I resign from my job as a forensic pathologist and return to my rural hometown to enjoy a laidback, leisurely life, I feel totally at peace. In contrast, my boyfriend's childhood sweetheart, Jessica Lester, starts panicking for real. She keeps begging me to stay. "Dr. Gardner, even though you're not that talented, I still hope you can stand beside me and speak up for those who have died unjustly!" I roll my eyes coolly and leave without looking back. In my previous life, Jessica is an intern put under my care. But every time we conduct an autopsy, she watches from the side but somehow manages to describe the victim's experiences before death ahead of me. She even uses wording that is identical to what I am thinking. I cannot make sense of it. In later autopsies, I give everything and go all out to prove myself, but even when she is not present, she can still iterate my findings at length. From then on, everyone idolizes her. Meanwhile, I become a laughingstock even if I am the most authoritative forensic expert in the state. Later on, the enraged family members of victims come to my doorstep every day. They lambast me and say that I am unworthy of being a forensic pathologist. They eventually set my house on fire, and I die miserably in the flames. When I open my eyes again, I return to the day I take Jessica to her first autopsy.

The door behind me opened. Alpha Adrian was smiling, looking at the man now standing before us both, but his face fell the second his eyes landed on me, shock and disgust filling his gaze. “Alpha King Rhys.” Adrian attempted to mask his disgust. “I must apologize. This foolish servant didn’t realize we would be meeting here.” I nodded meekly. This was the Alpha King. Nothing good could come from me stumbling through here. Adrian grabbed me roughly by the shoulders and started to move. “She will be going now.” “She can speak for herself.” The Alpha King’s aura made us both freeze. “What’s your name girl?” ***** Grace spent her whole life in a pack that didn’t value her, and took advantage of her in every way they could think of. Her father, The Alpha at the time, allowed it to happen, and eventually even imprisoned her. When her father died, instead of things getting better, they just got worse. Her stepsister and her brother-in-law made her life a living hell. She never saw a way out as she was wolfless and mute because not speaking was safer than speaking. But she’s not as weak as she thinks she is. When Alpha King Rhys comes for a visit in hopes of finding a bride, her whole life changes. Nothing she knew is as it seemed, and now she’s unravelling the mess she was left with. With the help of the Alpha King, she starts to find herself, piece by piece.

I wheel myself into the birthday celebration that Wales Price has thrown for me. The atmosphere is originally lively, but a brief silence descends when everyone sees me. The guests are there for different purposes, but celebrating my birthday is not one of them. "Is that Mr. Price's crippled fiancée, Joey Hertza?" "Yeah, but the one he really loves is Anna Giovanni. I saw them kissing in a corner earlier." They use their wine glasses to block their mouths as they speak loudly. They think I'm still the crippled deaf I used to be. They don't know that I regained my hearing last week. I can hear every mocking comment they make. Meanwhile, Wales stands there and allows it to happen. He doesn't stop the guests from talking about me. He seems to have forgotten that I only ended up like this while protecting him. I shoved him away when the accident happened and got trapped underneath the car myself. When I was rescued, Wales swore to stay with me and care for me for life. It's only been three short years since then, but he's already changed. I receive a message on my phone. "Ms. Hertza, the lifelike corpse that you've ordered is now complete. Reply to this message with your confirmation, and your death-faking service will be immediately effective. We will send the corpse to your and Mr. Price's wedding in five days." I don't even hesitate as I reply with my confirmation. Enjoy your wedding, Wales.

My husband's childhood sweetheart was diagnosed with a terminal illness. To fulfill her last wishes and let her experience the warmth of family, my husband, Aaron Turner, gave her my necklace. He even let her claim my birthday. Even our son started calling her "Mom" in private. He told me, "Chrishell, Sylvia is dying. Just give in to her, will you?" Whenever I asked him to spare even a little time and affection for me, our son, Lucas, would rush to speak on their behalf. "Mom, didn't you always teach me to be generous? Sylvia is dying. Why do you always make things difficult for her?" Over time, I stopped asking for anything at all. Then one night, I overheard my son speaking to his father after returning from the hospital. "Sylvia is so gentle and graceful. I wish Mom could be more like her." Aaron chuckled and affectionately brushed his hand over our son's hair. "Your mom may be a little strict, but it's all for your own good. Since you like Sylvia so much, how about we let her be your godmother?" So even the child I risked my life to bring into this world didn't like me. I lowered my gaze, quietly closed the bedroom door, and pretended none of it had happened. Since they were both filled with such regret, I'd leave quietly and give them what they wanted.

On the day I went to the city hall with my girlfriend to get married, her first love, Martin Lennox, suddenly appeared. “Teddy’s getting old, and his kidneys are failing. The vet said he only has a few days left. You should pay him a visit.” Teddy was the dog they got together. I knew about it, so I said kindly, “After Olivia and I get married, I’ll send both of you to the vet.” However, Martin suddenly started crying. “Olivia, you know dogs can’t speak, but he kept crying when he looked at your photo. He really wants to see you.” Olivia also started crying. She flung my hand away and apologized before she left with Martin. She disappeared for three days. On the fourth day, she returned home and apologized to me. Then, she dragged me to the city hall. Unexpectedly, Martin showed up with Teddy’s dead body. “Olivia, is your marriage really that important that you left Teddy alone at the vet? He’s dead now, and you didn’t manage to accompany him before he crossed the rainbow bridge!” Olivia cried as she looked at me. “I’ll come back to you after I bury Teddy, alright? Wait for me.” I gestured. “Just go, we can have our wedding ceremony first before we get our marriage certificate.” On the day of our wedding, Olivia was waiting happily for me at home in her wedding dress. However, she did not know that I was not planning on turning up.

"From today onwards, I will take every decision of your life. What you will eat, where will you go, when will you speak, what you will wear it will be all as I wish. And if you dare to defy me then till now it must have been crystal clear to you how far I can go to keep my words," his voice unsympathetic and cold, causing a shiver down her spine. Out of fear she was not even able to raise her head and kept her eyes casted down. He lifted her head up with his forefinger, underneath her chin and stared directly into her mesmerizing hazel eyes. "Understood?" Her throat was parched and her mouth was dry. Her tongue felt heavy in her mouth. The seam of her lips was cracked and pasted with each other and she couldn't find enough courage in herself to say anything using her tongue, so she just nodded and casted down her eyes again. He raised her chin more now with his forefinger and thumb, indicating her to look in his eyes and she did so. "Understood?" He asked again and raised both his eyebrows, warning her. "Yy....ye..ss" she croaked out. Her eyes were widened with fear and hands were fisting the bedsheet. Her cheeks were imprinted with red finger marks. "Good. Now take of your clothes and fulfill your duty" he ordered. She only pleaded him with her eyes. Clearly, she didn't want her wedding night to turn out like this.

Ayden blade. The CEO of ayden enterprises world wide runs a three hundred million steel company in Germany. Known by all and feared by many. There was no one in the business who didn't know him. Falling in love with his high school friend whom he parted ways with five years ago and unwillingly meeting with her after so many years. There are ups and downs in their relationship but Ayden is willing to put up with anything just to make things right between. Realizing that he had fallen in love with her long ago. Finally reaching a point of unrequited love. There is a lady who pops up in his life and tries to seperate him and his one true love Brianna Zachary. But can true love really speak for Ayden this time after she has been embarrassed by this woman. Brianna showing how fearless she is doesn't show any sign of concern as she acts like nothing happened when she was hurting deep down. Ayden is angered by this asking for his brothers advice where his brother delvin blade concludes that he should end her once and for all. Ayden asks his brother to give her time when within this period she conides with briannas luster Mr mandez where she promises to let him have Brianna while she gets to keep Ayden blade for herself. Things don't go as planned as Brianna has a freak accident and Ayden is left looking for the blood of the person who dares to hurt his woman.

On the day I signed the divorce papers, I was ordered to leave with nothing. When I walked out of the Crane estate, I had twenty-six dollars in my wallet and nowhere safe to go. My phone was nearly dead when a message from an old classmate appeared on the screen, linking to a discreet placement notice. 【Seeking a live-in maternal figure for three children. Room, board, salary, and protection provided.】 I stopped at the word protection. A roof, a meal, and a place the Cranes could not reach me were already more than I had that night. The address led me to the iron gates of an old mansion on Chicago’s Gold Coast. Only after the butler opened the door did I learn who had placed the notice. Dante Bellandi. The Don of Chicago’s oldest Italian crime family. I had only wanted a place to stay. Somehow, I became the legal mother of the three Bellandi children and the contract wife of Dante Bellandi himself. Later, my ex-husband, Sebastian Crane, stood before me with the same careless arrogance and asked, “Do you realize you were wrong now?” Before I could answer, the triplets stepped in front of me. Little Livia clung to my leg, her eyes red. “My mom wasn’t wrong!” Her two brothers stood on either side of her, staring Sebastian down. Dante placed one hand at my waist, his voice calm enough to make the air turn cold. “Mr. Crane, my wife owes no explanation to a man who lost the right to speak to her.”

They told us shadow was evil. They said light was the only thing that kept us safe. For four hundred years, Luminara has lived by that lie. The Order rules, fear keeps everyone in line, and no one dares ask why the winters are getting longer, the crops are failing, and the moon itself is starting to fade. Elara never thought she’d be the one to question it all. She’s just a girl with an old brass locket the only thing her mother left behind when she vanished years ago. But when the locket starts humming, and a figure made of dark and starlight steps out of the trees, everything she knows turns upside down. His name is Kaelen. He’s the guardian they’ve spent centuries hunting. And he tells her the truth no one is allowed to speak: Light can’t live without shadow. Break the balance, and the whole world dies. Now Elara is running hunted by the Order’s cruel leader, Valerius, who wants to steal the locket’s power and rule forever. She’s chased by Morgrath, a twisted shadow who offers her something terrifying: total control, no more fear, no more running. And deep beneath the mountains, something older than both light and dark is waking up something that could remake everything… or unmake it all. Elara came looking for answers about her mother. Instead, she found the fate of the whole world resting in her hands. Will she bring light and shadow back together? Or will she reach for the kind of power that never lets go?

In a world where the strong prey on the weak, "Lycan Healer" is a riveting love story that explores the capacity of love to break down barriers and mend broken hearts. The story follows two people whose paths unexpectedly cross in a world where racial tensions between races have reached a breaking point. Luceethe Arco, as a Healer, was born into a lycan-eating race. In spite of the rivalry and hatred between their clans, Luceethe loves the Lycans unconditionally. She wants to keep them safe. She wants them to grow and dominate the land. She believes the Lycans are the superior race, but her race won't agree to this. Obsessing over the beasts, she let herself be caught by them so she could see up close the lycans she fantasized about. .... Winston Luca, alpha of the lycans, forces Luceethe to mate with him because he believes it will negate her power and harm the "healers". But instead of losing her abilities, she went berserk and destroyed the entire prison where he had imprisoned her. Winston intends to slay Luceethe because he fears she would destroy everything or hurt his pack, but instead, he encounters a dejected woman sobbing on the floor. He then observed her power deteriorate as she collapsed into a coma. Three years later, Luceethe woke up and found herself with a Lycan husband and a lovely two-year-old son. He said, "You're finally awake, my dear wife," which brought confusion to Luceethe. "Did I become your wife?" "Yes, thank goodness you're back." "Why suddenly do you speak dearly of me?"