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

think he

I don’t know.

Caine pulled over and started shooting at

stared at Caine

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

stood there, staring at

himself, he

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

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

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

wasn’t even sure

“Well

like he was inside

hear and see everything I was

felt an

and I couldn’t help but

an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin shakes his

wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

need, this

cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett Haven

because I am only going to say

be silent as I tell Sebastian what

breathe while I talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it

ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin and I step out of

about your failed mission,” he mutters,

serious

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

for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma

sweat are gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes

I rise to my feet and follow him

truck along with multiple

him,

loudly, Korbin jumping

definitely wrong, Arden, my

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

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

“Speak clearly.

on to my patience as Wyatt

sir,” Wyatt

we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the news of Caine’s audacity to override my wishes and do

ask, a war waging in my

can be done with this ordeal while

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane

two got into an altercation for control of the 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,

ask, my face stone