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.

stop him but he shot at

think he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

just happened so fast and then Caine pulled over

stared at

head but he was

stood there, staring

even pissed himself, he was so

until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me

message and he 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 utter

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even

“Well

was

he could hear and see everything I was

and I felt an urge to do as

and I couldn’t help but

Alpha command?” “No,”

wolf wasn’t

[twas me.

need, this

and his cryptic storytelling as we

going to say this once,” I

will be silent as I tell

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

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

failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing

some serious explaining to

where is the little prick? His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,”

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

his forehead, the look in

prickles down my spine as I rise to my feet and follow him out to

truck along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes

anxiously beside him, any slight

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin jumping

is definitely wrong, Arden, my

Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself onto

you, Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says,

“Speak clearly.

on to my patience as Wyatt stares

Wyatt nods

and Korbin to speak with Zane one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your

hurt?” I ask, a war waging in

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and

the gun went off,

stone cold as I wait