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.

to stop him but he shot

he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

just happened so fast and then Caine

shifted and just stared at Caine for

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

stood there, staring at

pissed himself, he was

way through his skull.” “Zane turned to

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

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

wasn’t even

“Well it

was like he was inside my head,” Korbin

and see

and I felt an urge to do

was shut up and

an Alpha

wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

need, this desire to

son and his cryptic storytelling as we

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

will be silent as I tell Sebastian

I talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my plan to

the door ready to receive us, a deep frown

failed mission,”

have some serious explaining to

little prick? 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 gaze between Korbin and

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

are gathered at his forehead, the look in

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

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

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement

loudly, Korbin

is definitely wrong,

to understand

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

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to my patience

sir,” Wyatt

one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new

I ask, a war waging in

hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

continued to shoot and Zane reacted to

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

I ask, my face stone cold as I