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.

to stop him

think he hurt

I don’t know.

Caine pulled over and started shooting at

just stared at Caine for a

cylinder of his gun and pointed it to his own head but he

stood there, staring at

pissed himself, he was so

pulled the trigger many times until a bullet finally made its way through

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

Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

even

so?” “Well it was

was inside

he could hear and see everything

I felt an urge

shut up and I couldn’t help but listen to

weird.” “Like an Alpha command?”

wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

felt this urge, this need, this desire to

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

very carefully, Kor, because I am only going to say this once,”

silent as I tell Sebastian what

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

at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only

your failed mission,”

serious explaining

driving me insane all day asking why you took so long

to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl announces as he bursts through the door

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

my spine as I rise to

find Wyatt standing by the truck along with

beside him, any slight movement frightening

loudly, Korbin

is definitely wrong, Arden, my

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

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

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares

Wyatt nods

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 news of Caine’s audacity to override my wishes and do

ask, a war waging in

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 reacted

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

ask, my face stone cold as I wait