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 but he

he hurt

I don’t know.

so fast and then Caine pulled

just stared at Caine for a

his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for mercy

stood there, staring

even pissed himself, he was

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

him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the last time I ever heard Zane utter a single

Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.” mind-linked

even sure he

“Well it was

was like he was inside my

could hear and see

felt an urge

was shut up and

Alpha command?”

wolf wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

this urge, this need, this desire to do as

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

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

be silent as

breathe while I talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed

door ready to receive us, a deep frown on

furious about your failed mission,” he

have some serious explaining

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

a Moon Warrior Ceremony to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived,

the look in his eyes telling me something is off about Wyatt’s

rise to my feet and follow

with multiple guards, the

anxiously beside him, any slight movement

says loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong,

to understand

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

“Speak clearly.

hanging on

sir,” Wyatt

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

Zane hurt?” I ask, a war waging

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to 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

Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold as I wait for his