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 he shot

he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

and then Caine pulled over and started shooting

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 mercy but Zane never said

there, staring

himself, he

many times until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.”

him your message and he told me Alpha Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?”

Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

even sure

so?” “Well it

was like he was inside my head,” Korbin

he could hear and see everything I was

an order and I felt an urge to

shut up and I couldn’t help but listen

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

wolf wasn’t

[twas me.

felt this urge, this need, this

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

because I am only going

as I

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

the door ready to receive us,

is furious about your failed mission,”

serious explaining to

asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his gaze between

“The

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

as I rise to my feet

Wyatt standing by the truck along with multiple guards, the look in

anxiously beside him, any slight movement

Wyatt says loudly,

definitely wrong, Arden, my wolf,

seems to understand my

took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says,

“Speak clearly.

hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares

sir,” Wyatt nods

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

ask, a war waging in

can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no harm comes his

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane reacted to

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 a

stone cold