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.

him but

think he

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting at

just stared at Caine for a

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

just stood there, staring

pissed himself, he was so

finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me and

told me Alpha Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember

Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even

so?” “Well

like he was inside my head,”

and see everything I

I felt an urge to do as

and I couldn’t help but listen to

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

wasn’t

[twas me.

this desire to do

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

going to say

be silent as I tell Sebastian what

breathe while I talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain

Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his

mission,” he mutters, eyeing

some serious

mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.”

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

his forehead, the look in his eyes telling me something is

spine as I rise to my feet and follow him

truck along with multiple guards, the look

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement

says loudly,

is definitely wrong,

son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself onto his

that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,”

“Speak clearly.

hanging on to

Wyatt nods

his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the news

ask, a

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane

into an altercation for control 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,

stone cold as I