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 Zane’s

I don’t know.

then Caine pulled over and

and just stared at Caine for

head

stood there, staring

himself, he was so

made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me and I panicked,”

Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask,

no,” Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

even sure

“Well it

he was inside my

and

and I felt

was shut up and I couldn’t help

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

wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

this need, this desire to

sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett Haven gates and snap

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

as I tell Sebastian

Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to

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

is furious about your failed mission,” he

serious

His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so

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

in his eyes

my spine as I rise to my feet

the truck along with multiple guards, the look in

anxiously beside him, any

says loudly, Korbin

definitely wrong, Arden, my wolf,

to understand my

we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the fear

“Speak clearly.

sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience

Wyatt nods

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

I ask, a

so I can be done with

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

continued to shoot and

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 a

Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold as I wait for his