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

think he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine pulled over

just stared at Caine for a really long

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

stood there, staring

himself, he

a bullet finally made its way through his skull.”

Alpha Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the last time

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

even sure

“Well it was

he was inside my

hear and see everything

me an order and I felt an

and I couldn’t help but listen

Alpha command?”

wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

urge, this need, this desire

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

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

be silent as

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

receive us, a deep

failed mission,”

serious

me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his

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

are gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes telling me

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

I find Wyatt standing by the truck along with

anxiously beside him, any slight movement

loudly,

definitely wrong, Arden, my wolf,

my son? Wyatt seems to understand my

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

“Speak clearly.

making any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly at

Wyatt

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 my wishes and

ask, a war waging

can be done with this ordeal while the other half

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

continued to shoot and

but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the world comes to a stand

is Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold