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 hurt

I don’t know.

happened so fast and then Caine

and just stared at Caine for a

to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for mercy but Zane never

just stood there, staring

himself, he was

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

he told me Alpha Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the last time I ever heard Zane utter a

no,” Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure he

“Well

he was inside

he could hear and see everything I was

I felt an urge to do

shut up and I couldn’t help but listen

was weird.” “Like an Alpha

wolf wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

this need, this desire to do as

grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we

carefully, Kor, because I am only going to say

be silent as I tell Sebastian what

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

up to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on

is furious about your failed mission,” he

serious

where is the little prick? His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his gaze between Korbin

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

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

my spine as I rise to my feet and

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

him, any

Wyatt says loudly,

is definitely wrong,

my son? Wyatt seems to understand my

unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to

sir,” Wyatt nods

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

a war waging in my

killed so I can be done with this ordeal while

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane reacted

exactly know who shot who but the gun went off,

is Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold