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.

to stop him but he

he

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine

stared at Caine for a really

of his gun and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging

there,

himself, he

a bullet finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned

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

no,” Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

even sure

so?” “Well it was

was inside my head,”

and see everything I was

order and I felt an

up and I couldn’t help but listen

Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

felt this urge, this need, this desire to do

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

I am only going to say

be silent as I tell

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

already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he

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

some serious explaining to

where is the little prick? His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll

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

gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes telling

spine as I rise to

with multiple guards, the look in his eyes distant and

beside him, any slight

Wyatt says loudly,

is definitely wrong,

Wyatt seems to

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

“Speak clearly.

any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as

Wyatt nods

took Caine 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 Caine’s

ask, a war waging in my

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

to shoot and Zane reacted to

gun went off, and Caine

my face stone cold as I wait