All Chapters of The Alpha’s Greatest Blindness: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

The list of fourteen names turned the private wing into a place where every footstep outside the door carried a new weight.I remained in the inner room with the connecting door open and the silver cuff warm against my wrist. Kael stood in the outer room with the short written list still in his hand. Elder Orion had returned to the table and was reviewing the same fourteen names against every movement record since the cuff first woke. The silence between the three of us was heavier than any of the previous lockdowns. The living master had claimed that the familiar face was already inside the circle. The circle now had a number.Kael dismissed the last captain and closed the outer door. He did not immediately speak. He walked the length of the outer room once, the list held against his palm, then came to the connecting doorway and stopped. Fatigue and something colder sat in the lines of his face. The focus in his golden eyes had sharpened into a harder edge than even the discovery of

The third message closed the trap around the act of investigation itself.I remained in the inner room with the connecting door open and the silver cuff warm against my wrist. The latest lines from the eastern gate sat in the air with the weight of a blade held to the throat of every next decision. *The familiar face is among those still authorised to stand at the threshold. When the Alpha King next turns his full attention to a single name on the list, the door will open behind him.*Kael stood in the outer room with the three messages and the short list of fourteen names on the table. He had not ordered the next replacement. He had not called the next name for examination. The process he had begun had been stopped by the living master’s claim that focusing attention on any single remaining face would be the trigger.When he finally came to the connecting doorway, the fatigue in his face was deeper than any previous night, but the focus in his golden eyes had hardened into something

The third extraction wolf cleared the panel, and the second hand moved with them, angling away from Kael’s blade toward the connecting doorway where I stood.I did not cross the threshold. Kael had ordered me to stay. The silver cuff burned against my wrist. The Burden rose hard and fast under my skin, answering the sudden proximity of the threat that had lived inside the protection for days. I locked both forces down as far as I could and held position.Kael met the third wolf before they fully entered the outer room. The fight was close, brutal, and silent except for the impact of bodies and the short scrape of steel. Blood already darkened Kael’s left sleeve from the earlier exchange. He did not give ground toward the connecting doorway. He kept his body between the open panel and the inner room even while the second hand used the angle of the fight to slide along the far wall.Elder Orion remained pressed against the opposite wall, staff held across his body, out of the immediate

The hours after the fight settled into a strained, watchful quiet.I remained in the inner room with the connecting door open. The silver cuff rested warm against my wrist. The Burden had eased into a low, tired current. In the outer room, Kael finally allowed the healer to replace the hurried field bindings with cleaner, tighter bandages. He still refused to leave the outer space or to lie down. He sat only when the healer insisted the rib wound required the pressure off his feet for a short time, and even then the chair was placed so he faced both the sealed panel and the connecting doorway.Elder Orion coordinated the continued search from a table near the main door. Reports came in at short intervals. The blood trail in the shaft ended in the abandoned cross-passage. No body. No further clear tracks. The second hand had either found an unmapped side run or had help waiting lower in the keep. Every junction that fed the private wing from below or above was now under permanent post.

The quiet broke in the third hour after Kael’s forced interval in the chair.I had remained near the connecting doorway, resting only in short stretches while he held the outer room. The silver cuff stayed warm against my wrist. The Burden rested low. The unresolved blood trail and the absence of any new message from the living master had settled over the private wing like a held breath that refused to release.A coded knock sounded at the outer door. Kael was already on his feet before the second knock finished. He opened the door to a captain whose expression carried controlled urgency and the kind of confirmation that ended uncertainty one way or the other.“Alpha King. The lower search teams found the second hand. Dead. The body was in a side run off the abandoned cross-passage, partially concealed. The wound you gave them at the panel finished them before they could reach whatever exit they were trying for. No further tracks leave the run. The side passage has been sealed and pos