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

think he hurt

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine pulled

and just stared at Caine for a really

the cylinder of his gun and pointed it to his own head

just stood there, staring

even pissed himself, he

a bullet finally made its way through his skull.”

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

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even

so?” “Well it was

he was inside my head,” Korbin

could hear and see

and I felt an urge to do as he

shut up and

an Alpha command?”

wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

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

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

I am only going to say this

will be silent as I tell Sebastian

and I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to himself over

pull up to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face

about your failed mission,” he

serious explaining to

the little prick? His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his

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

sweat are gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes telling me something is

rise to my feet and follow him out to the

I find Wyatt standing by the truck along with

anxiously beside him, any slight movement

loudly, Korbin jumping

is definitely wrong,

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

were visiting

“Speak clearly.

on to my

Wyatt

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

Zane hurt?” I ask, a

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

continued to shoot and Zane

for control of the gun so I don’t exactly know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye,

is Caine?” I ask, my face stone