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.

tried to stop him but he

he

I don’t know.

Caine

stared at Caine for a really

suddenly spun the cylinder of his gun and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for mercy but Zane

there, staring

pissed himself, he

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

Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke

Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

even sure he

“Well it

was inside

he could hear and

felt an urge to

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

an Alpha

wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

felt this urge, this need, this desire to do as

I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as

because I am only going to say this once,”

as

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

Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin and I step out

mission,”

have some serious

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

to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived,

of sweat are gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes telling me something is

my spine as I rise to my feet and

Wyatt standing by the truck along with multiple guards,

beside him, any slight

says loudly, Korbin

is definitely wrong, Arden, my

to understand my question and lowers himself

were visiting California,” he

“Speak clearly.

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

Wyatt nods

to speak with Zane one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the news of

I ask, a war waging in my

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and

off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the world comes to a stand still,

face stone cold