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 shot at

he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

happened so fast and then Caine pulled over

shifted and just stared at Caine for

head but he

there, staring

even pissed himself, he was so

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

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.”

wasn’t even sure

“Well it was

was

he could hear and see

an order and I felt

he said was shut up and I couldn’t help

Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

urge, this need, this desire

son and his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the Scarlett Haven

I am only going to say this once,” I snarl

be silent as

proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to himself

us, a

your failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing

have some serious explaining

insane all day asking why you took so long to

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

his forehead, the look in his eyes telling

I rise to my feet and

standing by the truck along with multiple guards,

trembles anxiously beside him, any slight

loudly, Korbin

definitely wrong, Arden,

son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and

things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting

“Speak clearly.

sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly

sir,” Wyatt

we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the news

hurt?” I ask, a war waging

part of me hopes that the boy was killed so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no harm comes his

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

Caine continued to shoot and Zane reacted to the

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

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