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 but he

think he

I don’t know.

so fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting

stared at Caine for a really long

the cylinder of his gun and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for mercy

stood there, staring at

pissed himself, he was

trigger many times until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane

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

no,” Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.”

wasn’t even sure he

“Well it

like he was

he could hear and see everything I was

I felt

shut up and I couldn’t help but listen

weird.” “Like an Alpha

wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

this urge, this need, this desire to do

his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett

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

will be silent as I tell Sebastian what

proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it

the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on

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

some serious explaining to

day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain

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

at his forehead, the look in his eyes telling me something is

as I rise to my feet and follow him out

the truck along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes distant and

trembles anxiously beside him,

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin

definitely wrong,

where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my

regret to inform you, Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he

“Speak clearly.

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

Wyatt nods

one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.”

hurt?” I ask, a war waging in my

me hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no harm comes his

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

to shoot and Zane

but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an

my face stone cold as I wait for