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.

stop him but he shot

he

I don’t know.

just happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting at Zane

just stared 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

just stood there, staring at

pissed himself, he

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

your message and 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 shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.” mind-linked

wasn’t even sure he

“Well it was

he was inside my head,”

could hear and

order and I felt

and I couldn’t

was weird.” “Like an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin shakes his

wolf wasn’t compelled

[twas me.

this urge, this need, this desire to do as he

cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett Haven gates and

am only going to say this once,” I

will be silent as I tell Sebastian

you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to explain my

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

your failed mission,” he

some serious explaining to

asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting

Warrior Ceremony to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The Gamma has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl announces as he bursts

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

as I rise to my feet and follow him out to the

along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement

says loudly, Korbin

is definitely wrong, Arden, my

seems to understand my question and lowers

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

“Speak clearly.

snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as

sir,” Wyatt nods

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 audacity to override my wishes and do as he

ask, a war waging

killed so I can be done with

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

continued to shoot and

two got into 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 world comes to a stand

Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold as I wait