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

think he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

just happened so fast and then Caine

and just stared at Caine for a

own head

stood there,

pissed himself,

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

message and he told me Alpha Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the

Korbin

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

wasn’t even

so?” “Well

was

and see everything

gave me an order and I felt an urge to do as he

was shut up and I

an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin shakes his

wolf wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

need, this desire

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

only going to say

will be silent as

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

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

is furious about your failed mission,” he mutters, eyeing

serious explaining

His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,”

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

the look in his eyes

to

standing by the truck along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes distant and

beside him, any slight

loudly, Korbin

wrong, Arden,

is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself onto his

you, Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says,

“Speak clearly.

hanging on to my patience

sir,” Wyatt

we were approaching his new aimed

Zane hurt?” I ask, a war waging in my

I can be done with this ordeal while the other half prays no harm comes

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

and Zane

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

ask, my face stone