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

think he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

and then Caine pulled over

and just stared at

head but he was crying,

just stood there, staring

himself, he was

finally made its way through

actually spoke

no,” Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

even sure

so?” “Well it was

he was

he could hear and see everything I was

gave me an order and I felt an urge to do

shut up and I couldn’t help but listen to

“Like an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

my wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

felt this urge, this need, this desire to do as

grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett Haven gates and snap at

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

be silent as I tell

I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin

the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices

failed mission,” he

some serious

been driving me insane all day asking why you took

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

look in

I rise to my feet and follow him out

truck along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes distant and

beside him,

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin

definitely wrong, Arden,

two heads, but where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself

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

“Speak clearly.

I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as

Wyatt nods

were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the news of Caine’s audacity to

ask, a

so I can be done with this ordeal

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane reacted

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 comes to a stand still, my own lungs pausing for

face stone cold as I wait for his