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 he

he hurt

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine pulled over and

shifted and just stared at Caine for a

spun the cylinder of his gun and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was

stood there, staring

even pissed himself, he

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

Alpha Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

even sure

“Well it was

he was inside

and see everything

felt an urge to

and I couldn’t help but listen to

weird.” “Like an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin shakes

my wolf wasn’t

[twas me.

this desire to do as

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

going to say this once,” I snarl through gritted

silent as I tell Sebastian what

you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed

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

about your failed mission,” he

serious explaining to

prick? His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long

“**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl announces as he bursts through the door

are gathered at his forehead, the look in his

my spine as I rise to my

I find Wyatt standing by the truck along with multiple guards,

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement frightening

loudly,

is definitely wrong, Arden,

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

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

“Speak clearly.

sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on

Wyatt

took Caine and Korbin to speak with Zane one last 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

I ask, a war waging in my

that the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

to shoot and Zane reacted

so 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 a stand still, my

my face stone