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

he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

then Caine pulled over and

and just stared at Caine

gun and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane

stood there, staring at

himself, he

way through his skull.” “Zane turned

him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask,

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure he

so?” “Well it was

like he was

and see everything I was

order and I felt an urge to do

was shut up and I couldn’t help but listen

Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

wolf wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

felt this urge, this need, this desire to do as he

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

going to say this once,”

silent as I tell Sebastian

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

to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin and I step out of

your failed mission,” he

serious explaining to

you took so long to return.” “l’ll

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

rise to my feet and follow him out to

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

him, any slight

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong, Arden, my wolf,

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

things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong

“Speak clearly.

I snarl, barely hanging on to

Wyatt

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

I ask, a war waging in

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane reacted to

exactly know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the world comes to a stand still, my own lungs pausing

ask, my face stone cold