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.

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

at Caine

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 Zane

just stood there,

himself,

finally made its way through his

him your message and he told me Alpha Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.” mind-linked

even sure

“Well it

he was inside my head,”

could hear and see everything

order and I felt

shut up and

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

wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

this desire to do

sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic

I am only going to say this

be silent as I tell Sebastian

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

the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his face

furious about your failed mission,”

some serious

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

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

of sweat are gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes telling me

to my feet and follow him out to the

with multiple guards, the look in his eyes

beside him, any slight movement frightening

loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong, Arden, my

my son? Wyatt seems to

took an unexpected turn while we were visiting

“Speak clearly.

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

Wyatt

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

ask, a war

so I can be done with this ordeal while the other half

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

shoot and Zane

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 still,

my face stone cold as I