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 hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

and then Caine pulled over and started shooting at Zane

shifted and just stared at Caine for

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 never

just stood there, staring

himself, he

many times until a bullet finally made its way

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

Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

even sure

“Well it

like he was inside my head,”

hear and see

me an order and I felt an urge to do

he said was shut up and I couldn’t help

“Like an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

my wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

this

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

am only going

be silent as I tell Sebastian

not even breathe while I talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my

door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face

failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing

serious

you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his

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

forehead, the look in his eyes

my spine as I rise to my feet and follow

truck along with

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement frightening

loudly, Korbin jumping

definitely wrong, Arden,

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

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

“Speak clearly.

not making any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly at

sir,” Wyatt nods

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 as

hurt?” I ask, a war

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and

the gun so I don’t exactly know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink

Caine?” I ask, my face stone