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 he shot

he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

then Caine pulled over and started shooting at Zane

at Caine for

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

stood there, staring at

even pissed himself, he was so

pulled the trigger many times until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned

“Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even

“Well

was inside my head,”

hear and see everything I

I felt an urge to do as

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

an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

urge, this need, this

make any sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic

carefully, Kor, because I am only going to

will be silent as I tell

talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my plan to him,

us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin and I step out of the

mission,” he mutters, eyeing

serious explaining to

day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his gaze between Korbin

for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma

in his eyes

to my feet and follow him out to the

along with multiple guards, the

anxiously beside him, any slight movement

loudly, Korbin

wrong, Arden, my

where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself

while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the

“Speak clearly.

not making any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as

Wyatt nods

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 Caine’s audacity to override my wishes and do

Zane hurt?” I ask, a war waging in

hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no harm

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane

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 wait for his