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 shot

he hurt

I don’t know.

just happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting

stared at Caine for

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

there,

pissed himself, he was

way through his skull.” “Zane

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

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

even sure

so?” “Well it

like he was inside my head,”

he could hear and

an order and I felt an

he said was shut up and I couldn’t

Alpha

wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

this need, this desire to do as

grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as

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

be silent as I

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

the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices

about your failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing the

some serious explaining to

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

for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl announces as he bursts through the door of

his forehead, the look in his eyes telling me something is off about

I rise to my feet and follow him out to the

standing by the truck along with

anxiously beside him, any

loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong, Arden, my wolf,

count two heads, but where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself onto his knees

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

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly at

Wyatt nods

took Caine and Korbin to speak with Zane one last time before we left 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 do as he

I ask, a war waging

part of me hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane

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

I ask, my face stone cold as I wait for