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.

tried to stop him but he

he

I don’t know.

then Caine pulled over and started shooting

stared at Caine for a really long

own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for mercy

there,

himself, he was so

trigger many times until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me and I panicked,” Korbin

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

Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

wasn’t even

so?” “Well it was

like he was

could hear and see everything I was

an order and I felt

he said was shut up and I couldn’t help

“Like an Alpha

wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

this need, this desire

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

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

silent as I

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

Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin and I step out

failed mission,”

serious explaining to

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

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

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

my spine as I rise to

I find Wyatt standing by the truck along with multiple guards, the

anxiously beside him,

says loudly,

wrong, Arden, my wolf,

count two heads, but where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand

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

“Speak clearly.

not making any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt

Wyatt nods

to speak with Zane one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed

ask, a

I can be done with this ordeal while the

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

shoot and Zane reacted to

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

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