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.

just happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and

at Caine for a really long

it to his own head

just stood there,

pissed himself, he

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

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

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

wasn’t even

“Well it was

like he was inside

he could hear and see everything I was

I felt

and I couldn’t help but listen to

weird.” “Like an Alpha command?”

wasn’t

[twas me.

this urge, this need, this desire to

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

am only going to

silent as I tell Sebastian

proceed to explain my plan

pull up to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a

furious about your failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing the

some serious explaining to

insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his

the Alpha we have a Moon Warrior Ceremony to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma

forehead, the look in his eyes telling me

prickles down my spine as I rise to my feet and follow him out

by the truck along with multiple guards, the

anxiously beside him, any slight movement frightening

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin

definitely wrong, Arden,

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

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

“Speak clearly.

hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly at

sir,” Wyatt nods

time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the news of Caine’s audacity to override my wishes and do

I ask, a war waging in

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane reacted to

who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the world comes to a stand

face stone cold as I wait for