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 but he shot at

he

I don’t know.

so fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting at

at Caine for a really

head but he was

just stood there, staring at

pissed himself, he was so

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

told him your message and he told me Alpha Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying

Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.”

wasn’t even sure he

“Well

was like he was inside my

hear and see

order and I felt an urge to do as

shut up and I couldn’t help but listen

an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin shakes his

wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

this urge, this need, this

sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the

because I am only going to say

as I tell Sebastian what

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

is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his

your failed mission,” he mutters,

some serious explaining to

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

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

in his eyes

I rise to my feet and follow him out to

by the truck along with

him, any slight movement frightening

loudly, Korbin

is definitely wrong, Arden, my

where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself

while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the

“Speak clearly.

snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly

sir,” Wyatt nods

and Korbin to speak with Zane one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.”

Zane hurt?” I ask, a

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane reacted

who shot who but the gun went off,

my face stone cold as I