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

he hurt

I don’t know.

Caine pulled over and

at Caine for

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

there,

pissed himself, he

times until a bullet finally made its way

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

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.”

even sure

“Well

like he was inside

could hear and see everything I was

order and I felt an urge to

he said was shut up and

“Like an Alpha command?” “No,”

wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

urge, this need, this desire to do

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

am only going to say this once,” I snarl

will be silent as I tell Sebastian what

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

to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only

your failed mission,” he

have some serious explaining to

where is the little prick? His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long

a Moon Warrior Ceremony to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl announces as he bursts through

are gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes telling

I rise to my feet and follow him out to

the truck along with multiple

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement

Wyatt says loudly,

wrong,

heads, but where is my son? Wyatt seems to

you, Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were

“Speak clearly.

snarl, barely hanging on to my

sir,” Wyatt

with Zane one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing

hurt?” I ask, a war waging in my

so I can be done with this ordeal while the other

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane reacted to the

but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the world comes to a stand still, my own lungs pausing for

I ask, my face stone cold as I wait for his