The Silent Alpha

Fallen Heirs ***Wyatt?*** Korbin is eerily quiet as we drive the last leg of our trip home, staring off at the trees that we zoom past.

It’s frightening.

He’s never quiet.

(had not even set foot on the plane when Korbin called me the day of the attack, the fear thick in his voice as he demanded I return to the hotel.

He could not even explain to me what had happened, his words slurred as he incoherently begged me to come help him.

I did my best to calm him down and stayed on the line with him until I returned to the hotel where I got the shock of my life, finding Caine’s lifeless body stuffed in the back of the truck.

“What happened?” I demanded, unwilling to believe my own eyes as! stared at the body.

“H-he just went crazy!” Korbin hiccuped between sobs.

“I-I don’t even know what- what happened,” he cried.

“I tried to stop him.

I tried but he wouldn’t listen to me! He wouldn’t...

He just shot himself” he whimpered.

“He shot...

He shot himself.” It took several hours to calm Korbin down enough to make sense of what he was saying and even then, I could not make out the events of that day, unable to understand how Zane made Caine shoot himself without uttering a single word.

Caine is many things, but suicidal is not one of them.

He would have put up a fight before dying.

Something else must have taken place that day but I cannot get Korbin to tell me the truth.

“Dad...” Korbin whispers, his eyes glossy as he looks over at me.

“I’m scared.” now, so I swallow them back and put on a brave face.

“Alpha will want to know the exact details of that day,” I sigh tiredly, looking over at Caine.

“So what should I tell him?” Korbin whispers to himself.

My hands tighten their grip around the steering wheel as I try to think of a good answer to that.

Korbin can’t lie to save his life so it is best to come clean with what happened.

Lying to Sebastian is simply not an option.

“Tell me exactly what happened again,” I reply.

Korbin nods, his eye blinking fast as he clears his throat.

“W-we were on our way to River Moon like you told us, when we saw Zane and his mate driving in the opposite direction.

That’s when Caine went berserk and drew a gun from his pants.

to stop him

he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

and then Caine pulled over and started

just stared at Caine for a

it to his own head but

just stood there, staring

himself, he

times until a bullet finally made its way through his

Zane actually

no,” Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.” mind-linked

even sure

so?” “Well it was

he was

could hear and see everything I was

order and I felt an

shut up and I

was weird.” “Like an Alpha command?” “No,”

wolf wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

urge, this need, this desire to do as

I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett

very carefully, Kor, because I am only going to say this once,” I snarl

as I tell Sebastian what

head and I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering

to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep

about your failed mission,” he mutters,

have some serious explaining to

driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his gaze

Caine?” “Tell the Alpha we have a Moon Warrior Ceremony to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl

the look in his

spine as I rise to my feet and follow

standing by the truck along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes distant and

trembles anxiously beside him, any

Wyatt says loudly,

definitely wrong, Arden,

but where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand

Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the fear

“Speak clearly.

any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly at

sir,” Wyatt nods

one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the news of Caine’s audacity to override

a war waging

was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

continued to shoot and Zane

so I don’t exactly know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink

my face stone