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 shot

think he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting

just stared at

when Caine 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

stood there,

even pissed himself,

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

Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the last time I

no,” Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure

so?” “Well

was like he was inside my head,”

and

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

shut up and I

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

wolf wasn’t

[twas me.

this urge, this need, this desire to do

make any sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we pull

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

will be silent as

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

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

mission,” he mutters, eyeing the

some serious explaining to

been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain

“The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,”

look in his eyes telling me

prickles down my spine as I rise to

along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes distant

him, any slight movement

Wyatt says loudly,

is definitely wrong,

where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my

regret to inform you, Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the fear laced within his

“Speak clearly.

I snarl, barely hanging on

Wyatt nods

new aimed at your son.” My blood boils

ask, a

killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

continued to shoot and

know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink

my face stone cold as I wait