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.

tried to stop him but he

think he hurt Zane’s

I don’t know.

just happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and

stared at Caine for a really

head but he

just stood there, staring at

even pissed himself, he was so

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

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

no,” Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.”

wasn’t even sure

“Well

like he was

and see everything I was

I felt an

shut up and I couldn’t help but listen to

an Alpha command?” “No,” Korbin

wasn’t compelled to

[twas me.

this urge, this need, this desire to do

his cryptic storytelling as we

I am only going to say this once,”

be silent as I

talk, you understand?” Korbin nods his head and I proceed to

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

failed mission,” he

serious

why you took so long to return.”

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

sweat are gathered at his forehead, the look in his eyes

rise to my feet and follow him out

standing by the truck along with multiple guards, the look in

beside him, any slight movement frightening

loudly,

is definitely wrong, Arden,

heads, but where is my son? Wyatt seems to understand my question and lowers himself onto his

turn while we were visiting California,” he says,

“Speak clearly.

making any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to my patience as

sir,” Wyatt

as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing the news of Caine’s audacity to override

Zane hurt?” I ask, a war

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

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

to shoot and Zane

who but the gun went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the world comes to a stand still,

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