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 shot at

he

I don’t know.

happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting at

and just stared at Caine for

own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane

stood there,

himself, he was

until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me and

actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the last time I ever

no,” Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

even sure

“Well it

was like he was inside my

and see everything I

gave me an order and I felt an urge to

up and I couldn’t help but listen to

“Like an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin shakes his

my wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

urge, this need, this desire to do as

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

very carefully, Kor, because I am only going to

silent as I tell Sebastian what

I talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to himself over and over

already at the door ready to receive us, a

mission,” he mutters, eyeing

some serious

asking why you took

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

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

rise to my feet and follow him out to the

standing by the truck along with multiple guards, the look in his

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin

wrong,

to understand my question and

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

“Speak clearly.

not making any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly

Wyatt nods

left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing

Zane hurt?” I ask, a war waging in my

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane reacted to the

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

stone cold as I wait for