Alle Kapitel von The Alpha’s Greatest Blindness: Kapitel 51 – Kapitel 60

The private wing had become a closed world.I remained inside the secured rooms through the full stretch of the day while Kael directed the hunt for the second hand from the outer chamber and the adjoining corridor. Messages moved in and out under heavy guard. Elder Orion cross-checked movement records against the runner’s description of timing and passages. Every servant and lower-staff member with access to the private wing approaches was questioned again. The atmosphere was tighter than any siege hour. The enemy was no longer only outside the walls. It was already inside the keep, close enough to have planned an extraction from Kael’s own door.Kael did not leave the wing for more than a few minutes at a time. When he did, the connecting door stayed open, and Elder Orion remained in the outer room. When he returned, his focus went first to me, then to the latest report. The personal claim that had grown through every danger was now inseparable from the practical need to keep me wit

First light reached the private wing without any further test of the doors.I had slept in short, shallow stretches, waking each time the watch changed or Kael shifted in the outer room. The connecting door had stayed open the entire night. The silver cuff rested warm against my wrist. The Burden remained low. When the pale edge of morning finally showed, Kael was already on his feet and speaking with the captain of the permanent post in a voice too low for the corridor to carry.He finished the exchange, closed the outer door, and came to the connecting doorway. Fatigue sat deeper in his face than the day before, but the focus in his golden eyes had not lessened.“The far post reports no further approach to the sealed bolt,” he said. “The lower junctions were walked continuously through the remaining hours of dark. No soft-soled tracks appeared after the withdrawal. The second hand did not try again last night.”I rose from the edge of the bed and stood facing him across the short di

The living intruder was brought to a secure room on the same level as the private wing before the morning had fully settled.I walked the short distance under Kael’s direct escort, the silver cuff warm against my wrist and the Burden held quiet. Two permanent-post wolves moved ahead and two behind. No one else was allowed in the corridor while the transfer happened. The failed extraction had left the entire wing under a tighter silence than any previous night.The secure room was stone, bare, and lit by a single torch. The intruder knelt under heavy restraint, wrists locked, a deep cut along one shoulder already bound by a healer. His face was bruised and set. He wore no house mark. The soft-soled boots that had left tracks at every previous approach still covered his feet. Elder Orion stood to one side as witness. Kael closed the door himself and took position slightly in front of me without fully blocking my view.“You timed the attempt for the moment I was supposed to leave for the

The fourth token left in plain sight changed the silence inside the private wing.I remained in the inner room with the connecting door open and the silver cuff warm against my wrist. Beyond the outer door, the keep moved into a sharper internal lockdown. Upper-staff wings were sealed. Every remaining steward and supply clerk was being pulled into accounting. The permanent posts on the private corridor had been increased again. Kael had not left the wing. He stood in the outer room receiving short reports and giving shorter orders, the same absolute refusal to create any gap between his presence and the rooms where I waited.When the latest captain left, Kael closed the outer door and came to the connecting doorway. Fatigue sat deeper in his face than the day before, but the focus in his golden eyes had only hardened.“The senior steward is not inside the keep,” he said. “The outer gates have no record of his exit under his own name or any obvious cover. The token left on the writing

The fourth abandoned run turned the private wing into a space that no longer felt fully known even to its own Alpha.I remained in the inner room with the connecting door open and the silver cuff warm against my wrist. Beyond the outer door, the keep continued the work of sealing and mapping every forgotten passage that fed the approaches to this corridor. Kael had not left the wing. He stood in the outer room receiving the latest reports in short, precise exchanges, the same absolute refusal to create any gap between his presence and the rooms where I waited.When the most recent captain left, Kael closed the outer door and did not immediately give another order. He remained still for a longer moment than usual, both hands resting on the edge of the table, head slightly bowed under the weight of successive discoveries that had rewritten the layout of his own keep. Then he straightened and came to the connecting doorway.Fatigue sat deeper in his face than on any previous day, but the