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

he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine pulled

at Caine for a really long

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

there,

pissed himself, he was

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

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

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.”

wasn’t even

“Well

like he was inside my head,”

he could hear and see

and I felt an urge to do

and I couldn’t help but listen

Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

need, this desire

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

carefully, Kor, because I am only going to say this

silent as I

understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my plan to him,

is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on

about your failed mission,”

serious explaining

mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took

“Tell the 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

in his eyes telling me something is

rise to my feet

find Wyatt standing by the truck along with multiple

him, any slight movement frightening

Wyatt says loudly, Korbin jumping

definitely wrong, Arden, my wolf,

heads, but where is my son? Wyatt seems to

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

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to my patience

Wyatt nods

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

me hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and

got into an altercation for control of the gun so I don’t exactly know who shot who but the gun went off,

my face stone cold as I