The Silent Patient Audiobook Novelas e Histórias

"No! He doesn't know what he's saying! Philip, listen to me, I can explain—please, let me explain!" Philip looked like a demon straight out of hell. His voice was ice. "A wench? What did you two do to Grace?! You both deserve to die!" At that moment, his parents rushed in with the family doctor. Laila threw herself into their arms, crying out in fear, "Please help us! Philip's gone crazy!" The doctor quickly injected Philip with a sedative. He collapsed instantly. However, the effect only lasted two hours. Philip woke up, dazed. He sat up and looked around in confusion—then suddenly remembered and tried to stand.

The echo of the forest’s rage lingered — trees clawing at me, the earth splitting, the wind shrieking. Within the blink of an eye, silence draped itself over everything — A heavy, dead silence. Its wifht pressed down even much more, draining life our of me. But with every passing moment that life slips out of me, it feeds this dead silence like a zombie feeds on brains. And so, this silent wasn't dead anymore. It now had a pulse. I might still be a subject to delusion because it felt like this silence had a voice too. I heard a faint hum rolled through the emptiness until suddenly a flicker of light exploded through the air.

Ava There’s no sound. Not even the hum of electricity. No light. No air movement. No ticking clock. Nothing. Just me. Me, and the dark. I don’t even hear the lock anymore. I don’t know how long it’s been since the door shut behind me. Minutes. Hours. Maybe days. Time doesn’t exist in here, not when you can’t measure it, not when your thoughts loop and stretch until the line between memory and hallucination starts to blur. The first few minutes, I screamed. Cried out, pounded the door with fists and feet and curses so sharp they tore my throat open. I think I threatened to kill him. Begged him. Wept. Raged. All of it and nothing happened. No one came. So I stopped. I lay on the freezing floor

The previous playfulness disappeared from his face as he sat frozen on his soft side, not even moving a bit. His prolonged silence thumped my heart as if it challenged me to correct the mistake I made unintentionally. However, I had no idea what I did wrong. So, taking a safer route, I closed my eyes, pretending to be asleep. That was when Cassian finally broke his silence. He grabbed my wrist, catching me off guard. “No!” he said, his voice rough. “You can’t ignore me like this.” My heart leapt to my throat as my eyes flew open, only to find shadows of darkness clouding Cassian’s features. He narrowed his dark eyes and said,

I just hold it like a prop, something to grip while I dismantle the careful fiction of the past eighteen months and show him the mess underneath. Through all of it, Silas doesn't move. Doesn't shift his weight or cross his arms or do any of those restless things people do when they're processing something massive. He just stands there, shoulder against the doorframe, mug in hand, those pale gray-blue eyes steady on mine. Listening the way he does everything—completely. When I finish, the hallway's so quiet I can hear the rain ticking against the window at the end of the corridor.

The silence inside the bedroom felt like a physical weight pressing down on my chest. I stayed on the floor, my back pressed against the wall next to the door, barely breathing. Outside in the hallway, the guards were quiet now, their footsteps silent as they waited for more updates from the city. The static from their handheld radio was the only sound cutting through the emptiness of the house, a low, steady hiss that kept my nerves on edge. Suddenly, the line clicked again. The sound of shuffling dirt and footsteps came through the tiny speaker, followed by the heavy breathing of a man who had been running.

It was a rhythmic, scratching sound—the sound of a pen on parchment. "Doctor," a voice whispered through the speakers. It was Silas. "I hope you’re ready for the ending. It’s going to be... bloody." The car died. The lights went out. We were trapped in the dark, and I could feel the Shadow in the backseat, laughing.and we ran to library

I'll be back. I know. You better be. I will. She set the phone down. The room was quiet. The street below was quiet. She picked up the book. Clara's book. The one she didn't understand. Opened it. Read the first page. The words still blurred. She kept reading.

CHAPTER 103: THE AUDIT OF THE HEART The silence in the "Void-Gutter" was louder than any explosion. It was the kind of silence that pushed against your eardrums until they bled, a pressurized void that smelled of ozone, stagnant mercury, and the copper tang of dying hopes. I stood in the center of that light-eating corridor, my boots clicking rhythmically against the cold, weeping iron of the floorboards. Each step felt like a hammer blow against my own soul.

" Silence fell on the other side of the camera. I gave a wry smile and picked up my tray to continue working. It wasn't until 2:00 am that I dragged my exhausted body out through the bar's front door. The woman approached me again. "Julian, do you need the money because you're in some kind of trouble? I might be able to help you." The moment I looked up, blood suddenly gushed from my nose. A cry of alarm came from behind the camera. "Julian!"