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.

him but

think he hurt

I don’t know.

happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting

and just stared at

pointed it to his own head but he was

stood there,

himself, he was so

finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned

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

no,” Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

even sure he

so?” “Well it

was like he was inside my head,” Korbin

hear and see everything I was

an order and I felt an urge to

was shut up and I couldn’t

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

my wolf wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

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

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

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

as I tell Sebastian

not even breathe while I talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to

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

your failed mission,” he

some serious

insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain

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

the look in his eyes

as I rise to my feet and follow him out to the

along with multiple guards, the

beside him, any slight movement

says loudly, Korbin

definitely wrong, Arden,

where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my

you, Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to my patience

Wyatt nods

speak with Zane one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed

I ask, a war waging in

I can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and

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

my face stone cold as I wait for