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 hurt

I don’t know.

just happened so fast and then Caine

shifted and just stared at Caine

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 Zane never said

stood there,

even pissed himself, he was

its way through

away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the last time I

no,” Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure

so?” “Well

he was inside my head,”

he could hear and see

I felt an

up and I couldn’t help

Alpha command?” “No,”

my wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

this need, this desire to do as he

make any sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we

Kor, because I am only going to say

will be 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

we pull up to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face when he notices only Korbin and I

mission,” he

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 explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his

prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has

look in his eyes telling me something is off about

to my feet and follow him out to

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

beside him,

Wyatt says loudly,

is definitely wrong, Arden, my

but where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself onto his knees before

we were visiting California,”

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on

Wyatt nods

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 audacity

hurt?” I ask, a war

the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and

an altercation for control of the gun so I don’t exactly know who shot who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the

my face stone cold as I