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

I don’t know.

happened so fast and then Caine

just stared at

Caine suddenly spun the cylinder of his gun and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for

there,

even pissed himself,

made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me and I panicked,”

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

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.”

even

“Well it was

was

he could hear and see everything

order and I felt an

said was shut up and I couldn’t help but listen

“Like an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

need, this desire to

doesn't make any sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett Haven gates and snap

carefully, Kor, because I am only going to say this

as I tell

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

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

is furious about your failed mission,” he mutters,

serious explaining

you took

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

forehead, the look in his eyes telling me

to my feet and follow him out

with multiple guards, the look

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement frightening

Wyatt says loudly,

definitely wrong, Arden, my wolf,

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

while we were

“Speak clearly.

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

sir,” Wyatt

before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood

ask, a war waging

be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no harm

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

continued to shoot and

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

Caine?” I ask, my face stone