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 but he

think he hurt

I don’t know.

Caine pulled

shifted and just stared at Caine for

spun the cylinder of his gun and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for

just stood there,

himself, he was so

way through

told 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

no,” Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure he

“Well it

like he was inside my head,” Korbin

he could hear and see everything I

order and I felt an

was shut up and

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

my wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

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

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

am only going to say

will be silent as I

I proceed to explain my plan to him,

us, a deep

mission,” he mutters, eyeing the

some serious

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

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

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

down my spine as I rise to

standing by the truck along with multiple

beside him, any slight movement frightening

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong, Arden, my wolf,

Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself onto his knees before

turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the fear laced within

“Speak clearly.

not making any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to

Wyatt

last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at

hurt?” I ask, a war waging in my

of me hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

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

my face stone cold as