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

he hurt

I don’t know.

so fast and then Caine pulled

at Caine

his own head but he was

stood there, staring at

even pissed himself, he was

the trigger many times until a bullet finally made its way

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

Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

even

“Well it

was inside my

he could hear and see everything I

and I felt an urge to do as

said was shut up and I

weird.” “Like an Alpha

wolf wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

this need, this desire to do

and his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett Haven gates and snap at

going to say this once,”

silent as I tell Sebastian what

nods his head and I proceed to explain

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

your failed mission,” he

serious

insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his gaze

“**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,”

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

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

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

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement

Wyatt says loudly,

wrong,

my son? Wyatt seems to understand my

we were visiting California,”

“Speak clearly.

sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my

sir,” Wyatt

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

hurt?” I ask, a war waging

of me hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane reacted

exactly know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink

my face stone cold as I wait for his