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 but

think he hurt

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine pulled over and

stared at Caine for a really

the cylinder of his gun and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging

there,

pissed himself,

trigger many times until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me and

pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even

“Well it was

was like he was inside my head,” Korbin

hear and see everything I was

I felt an urge to do

said was shut up and I couldn’t help but listen

Alpha command?”

wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

this need, this desire

cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett Haven gates and

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

as I tell Sebastian

proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to himself over and over

us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin and

mission,” he mutters,

serious explaining

all day asking why you took so long

to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl announces as he bursts through the

gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes telling me something is off about Wyatt’s

rise to my feet

along with multiple guards, the

trembles anxiously beside him, any

loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong, Arden, my

where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question

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

“Speak clearly.

hanging on to my

sir,” Wyatt

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

ask, a war waging

of me hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane

of the gun so I don’t exactly know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the world comes to a stand still,

Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold as I