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

I don’t know.

then Caine pulled

just stared at Caine for a really

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

just stood there,

himself, he was

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

would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?”

no,” Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.”

wasn’t even sure

so?” “Well it was

he was inside

could hear and see

me an order and I felt an urge to do as

was shut up and I couldn’t help

“Like an Alpha command?”

wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

felt this urge, this need, this

his cryptic

carefully, Kor, because I am only going to say this once,” I snarl through gritted

as I

I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to himself

we pull up to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin

is furious about your failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing the

have some serious explaining

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

for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl

his forehead, the look in

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

with multiple guards, the look in his eyes

trembles anxiously beside him,

loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong,

heads, but where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers

regret to inform you, Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,”

“Speak clearly.

on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly

sir,” Wyatt

last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at

hurt?” I ask, a

so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane reacted

gun so I don’t exactly know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine

Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold as I