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 shot

think he

I don’t know.

then Caine pulled over and

shifted and just stared at Caine for

and pointed it to his own head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for mercy but Zane

there, staring at

even pissed himself, he was

finally made its way through his skull.” “Zane turned to me and I panicked,”

“Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying

no,” Korbin shakes his

“He mind-linked me but...

weird.”

wasn’t even sure he

“Well it was

was

and see everything

an order and I felt an urge to do as he

was shut up and I couldn’t help but listen

Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

my wolf wasn’t compelled to listen

[twas me.

felt this urge, this need, this

sense.” I grow impatient with my son and his cryptic storytelling as we pull up to the

very carefully, Kor, because I am only going to say this once,” I snarl through gritted

as

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

we pull up to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to receive us, a deep frown on his

mission,” he

serious

why you took so long

Moon Warrior Ceremony to prepare for.” “**Sebastian*** “The

the look in his eyes telling me something

prickles down my spine as I rise to my feet and follow him out

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

him,

loudly, Korbin

is definitely wrong, Arden, my wolf,

to understand my question and lowers himself onto

you, Alpha, that things took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice strong despite the

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt stares blankly at

sir,” Wyatt

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

ask, a war

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

shoot and Zane

went off, and Caine was shot.” In

is Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold