All Chapters of The Alpha’s Greatest Blindness: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

The labourer’s final words stayed in the room long after the healers had taken him away to rest under guard.I stood near the table in the secured chambers with the silver cuff still closed in my hand. The quiet warmth it gave off had not faded. Kael remained close, his presence steady and silent while the weight of the message settled. A living master. Not the Veilbreakers’ dead cause, but someone who wanted the Moonveil line found and controlled. And that someone already knew I was inside these walls.Kael broke the silence first.“We treat this as a second front,” he said. His voice was low and precise. “The Veilbreakers want you erased. This other force wants you taken alive. That changes how every threat is read from this point forward.”I nodded once. The letter from Mara still lay open on the table beside the dark cloth. The words *the cuff would lead you to the truth* sat clearly in my mind.Kael looked at the cuff in my hand.“Elder Orion needs to see it. He is already on his

The note changed everything about the silence inside the keep.I sat in the secured chambers with the silver cuff still warm on my wrist and the words of the message repeating in my mind. *We do not need to break the keep to reach her. We only need to wait for the moment the walls open from the inside.* The Veilbreakers wanted me dead. The unmarked group wanted me taken. And now they had made it clear they believed someone within these walls would eventually give them the opening.Kael had not raised his voice when the captain brought the note. He had gone very quiet instead. That quiet was more dangerous than any display of temper I had seen from him.He spent the next hour giving precise orders from the adjoining room. Internal watch rotations were changed. Certain visiting wolves were restricted further. Two of the names on the list of those who had favoured trading me during the earlier demand were moved to closer confinement under the excuse of security. Magnus was given the task

The wait after Kael left felt sharper than the previous ones.I remained in the secured rooms with the connecting door open and the silver cuff warm against my wrist. The knowledge that a visiting wolf had been caught with an unmarked message tube sat heavily in the silence. The first real proof of internal contact with the unmarked group had been found. Everything the note on the outer wall had implied was no longer only suspicion.When the outer door opened again, it was a Beta under clear orders.“Alpha King Kael requires you in the lower secure cells. Direct escort. He wants you present for the questioning.”I followed the guards down through the inner keep. The corridors were quieter than during the open assaults, but the tension had not eased. It had only changed shape. When we reached the lower level, two heavy doors were opened and I was shown into a stone room lit by a single torch.Kael stood near the centre. The captured visiting wolf knelt under guard a few paces away, han

Night settled over the private wing with a heavier silence than any of the sealed chambers I had known before.I sat on the edge of the bed in the inner room with the silver cuff warm against my wrist and the connecting door standing open exactly as Kael had ordered. Beyond it I could hear the low, controlled sounds of him moving through the outer space—checking the locks a second time, speaking briefly with the guards in the corridor, then the quiet shift of weight as he settled into the chair that faced the open doorway.He did not close the distance completely. He also did not leave me alone on the far side of a locked door.The knowledge that the collaborator had already mapped these rooms and written instructions about opening a door from his own wing sat between us like a third presence. The Burden rested quietly under my skin. The cuff remained steady, offering no new image, only that same patient warmth.After a long stretch of silence, Kael’s voice came from the outer room, l

Elder Orion sat in the outer room with his staff resting against his knee and a thin stack of aged notes on the table beside him.I remained in the inner chamber with the connecting door open, the silver cuff warm against my wrist, and the residual tension of the night still sitting under my skin. Kael had left for the lower questioning less than an hour earlier. The private wing felt different without his presence filling it, even though the guards at both ends of the corridor and the Elder in the outer room left no real gap in the watch.Elder Orion did not push conversation at once. He worked through the notes in silence for a while before he spoke without looking up.“The name Elaria appears in only three surviving fragments from the final years of Moonveil,” he said. “In each case, she is recorded as a keeper of the bloodline’s protected knowledge rather than a ruling figure. If the cuff is showing her to you, it may be because the piece was meant to pass that knowledge forward w