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 hurt

I don’t know.

fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting at

stared at Caine for a

head but he was crying, like he was begging Zane for mercy but

stood there, staring

himself, he was so

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

Sebastian would regret pushing him away-” “Wait, Zane actually spoke to you?” I ask, trying to remember the last time I ever heard Zane utter a single

Korbin shakes

“He mind-linked me but...

was weird.”

wasn’t even sure

“Well

like he was inside

could hear and see

and I felt an urge to do as

said was shut up and I couldn’t help but listen to

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

my wolf wasn’t

[twas me.

this desire

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

I am only going to say this once,”

as I tell Sebastian

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

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 step

mission,” he mutters, eyeing

some serious

prick? His mother has been driving me insane all day asking why you took so long to return.” “l’ll explain later,” Ireply, Earl shifting his gaze between Korbin and

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

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

to my

along with multiple guards, the

him, any slight

loudly, Korbin jumping

wrong,

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

took an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he

“Speak clearly.

barely hanging on to my patience as Wyatt

sir,” Wyatt

to speak with Zane one last time before we left and as we were approaching his new aimed at your son.” My blood boils hearing

I ask, a war waging in

boy was killed so I can be

“He’s alright,” Wyatt explains.

shoot and Zane

went off, and Caine was shot.” In ablink of an eye, the

Caine?” I ask, my face stone cold as