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

he hurt

I don’t know.

Caine

at Caine for a really long

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

just stood there, staring

even pissed himself, he

times until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.”

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

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure he

“Well it was

was inside

and see everything

gave me an order and I felt an urge

was shut up and I

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

wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

need, this desire

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

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

will be silent as I tell Sebastian what

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

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

failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing the truck

have some serious explaining to

driving me insane all day asking why you took so

the Alpha we have a Moon Warrior Ceremony to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl

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

spine as I rise to my feet and follow

by the truck along with multiple guards, the look in his

him, any slight

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong, Arden,

where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question

turn while we were visiting California,” he

“Speak clearly.

I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly

sir,” Wyatt

Caine and Korbin 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

a war waging in my

was killed so I can be done

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

shoot and Zane reacted

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

my face stone