The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

60. 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.

Thad 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 I stared at the body.

“H-he just went crazyl” 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 mel 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.”

So am I, I want to tell him but these words will do him no good right 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. I tried to stop him but he shot at them. I think he hurt Zane’s mate. I don’t know. Everything just happened so fast and then Caine pulled over and started shooting

at Zane again. Zane shifted and just stared at Caine for a really long time. That’s when 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 never said anything. He just stood there, staring at him. Caine even pissed himself, he was so scared. He pulled the trigger many times until a bullet finally made its way through his skull.”

“Zane turned to me and I panicked,” Korbin adds. “I told him your message and he told me Alpha 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 word.

“Well no,” Korbin shakes his head. “He mind-linked me but… it was weird.”

raising an eyebrow at him. Zane had never

was like he was inside my head,” Korbin explains. “Like he could

felt an urge to do as he said. All he said was shut up and I couldn’t help but listen to him. It

“Like an Alpha command?”

to listen… It was me. I felt this urge, this need,

It doesn’t make

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

very carefully, Kor, because I am only going to say this once.” I

his head and I proceed to explain my plan to him, Korbin muttering it to himself

to the pack house, Beta Earl is already at the door ready to

I step

mission,” he mutters, eyeing the truck suspiciously. “You have

where is the little prick? His mother has been driving me insane all day asking

later,” I reply, Earl shifting his gaze

“Where is Caine?”

looks to me for help and I clear

Alpha we have a Moon Warrior Ceremony

***Sebastian***

has arrived, Alpha,” Beta Earl announces as he

the look in his eyes telling me something is off about

driveway. There, I find Wyatt standing by the truck along with multiple guards, the look in his eyes distant and emotionless. Korbin trembles anxiously beside him, any slight movement frightening

loudly, Korbin

definitely wrong, Arden,

but where

understand my question and lowers himself onto his knees

an unexpected turn while we were visiting California,” he says, his voice

the fear laced

making any sense,” I snarl, barely hanging on to

to speak with

took a gun from his glove box, and aimed at your

audacity to override my

I ask, a war waging in my head. A part of me hopes that the boy was killed so I

the gunfire. The two got into an altercation for control of the gun so I don’t exactly know who shot who but the gun went off,

of an eye, the world comes to

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

the familiar pain of another lost son

fault of

sharp gasp calls out from behind

then I hear footsteps approaching, Sara stepping out of the house as her lips quiver

She whimpers

go inside,” I command, Sara ignoring me

say?” She repeats, her hand clinging to her chest as several tears roll down

stepping in her way and

wrapping his arms around her as

against Earl’s chest in hopes of breaking

to the house to comfort his I una, but she does not

him!” she snarts, slapping Wyatt across the face when he tries to

She sobs angrily, collapsing to the ground on her

in linen tucked tightly in the bed. My hands shake

and I pull back the linen, closing my eyes instantly when I see Caine’s face with two