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.

stop him but

think he hurt

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting at Zane

stared at Caine for

to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for mercy

there, staring

himself, he

made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me and I panicked,” Korbin

away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the last time I ever heard Zane utter a

Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure

so?” “Well it

he was inside

and see

gave me an order and I felt an urge to do as

and I couldn’t help

weird.” “Like an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin shakes

wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

this desire to do

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

am only going to say

as

proceed to explain my

we pull up to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin and

about your failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing the truck

some serious explaining to

why you took

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

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

I rise to my

find Wyatt standing by the truck along with multiple guards,

beside him, any slight movement frightening

says loudly,

definitely wrong, Arden,

my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers

unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the fear laced

“Speak clearly.

hanging on

Wyatt nods

speak with Zane one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My

Zane hurt?” I ask, a war waging

boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane

the gun went off, and Caine

Caine?” I ask, my face stone