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.

tried to stop him

think he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and started

stared at

own head but he was crying, like he was

just stood there,

himself, he was so

its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me

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

wasn’t even sure

“Well it was

was inside my head,” Korbin

could hear and

I felt an urge to do

and I couldn’t help but

an Alpha

wasn’t

[twas me.

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

make any sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling

I am only going to say this once,” I

silent as I tell Sebastian

proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to himself

us, a deep frown

mission,” he mutters,

some serious explaining

has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.”

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

the look in his eyes telling me something is off about

my spine as I rise to my feet and follow

truck along with multiple guards, the

trembles anxiously beside him, any

loudly, Korbin jumping

definitely wrong, Arden, my

son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and

unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the fear laced

“Speak clearly.

on to my patience as Wyatt stares

sir,” Wyatt

approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the

I ask, a war waging

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

shoot and Zane

into an altercation 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, the world comes to a stand still,

Caine?” I ask, my face stone