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

think he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine

at Caine

and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he

there, staring

pissed himself, he was so

pulled the trigger many times until a bullet finally made its way through

away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying

no,” Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure he

so?” “Well it

he was inside my head,”

he could hear and see everything I was

I felt an urge

and I couldn’t help

an Alpha command?” “No,”

wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

this need, this desire to do as

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

am only going to say this once,” I snarl

as I tell

head and I proceed to explain my plan to him,

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

failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing

have some serious

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

Alpha we have a Moon Warrior Ceremony to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The

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

prickles down my spine as I rise to

standing by the truck along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes

beside him, any slight movement frightening

says loudly,

wrong, Arden,

two heads, but where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself onto his knees before

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

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares

Wyatt

approaching his new aimed at your son.”

a war waging in my

so I can be done

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane

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

Caine?” I ask, my face stone