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The price of peace
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Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart Epilogue
RAVEN Thirty Years After SolsticeThe university auditorium held three hundred young wolves—none of them born when the revolution began. They'd grown up with democracy as normal. With choices as expected. With freedom as their birthright, not their battlefield.I stood at the podium, grey-haired and slower but still here. Sixty-three years old. Ancient by wolf standards for someone who'd fought as hard as I had."Your professor asked me to speak about the early days." My voice carried despite age. "About what it was like building democracy from nothing. Fighting for the right to choose your own leaders."A young wolf raised her hand. "Why did you have to fight? Why didn't wolves just... vote?"The question was innocent. Beautiful. She genuinely couldn't imagine a world without democracy.That was victory."Because thirty years ago, wolves lived under tyrants. Alphas who ruled through strength. Who killed anyone who questioned their authority. Who decided everything for everyone." I w
Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart Passing the torch
RAVEN The Council chamber had been rebuilt three times in ten years. Each iteration larger, more permanent, more confident. Now it held representatives from one hundred twelve democratic packs—every continent, every territory, all choosing self-governance.I stood at the podium for what would be my final address as Supreme.Twenty years. The Constitutional term limit I'd helped write. Twenty years of leadership, and now it was time to step down."Ten years ago today, we faced impossible odds." My voice carried to wolves who'd fought beside me and wolves who'd only heard stories. "We were twenty-three packs. Two hundred fifty wolves. Facing four hundred coalition forces and centuries of tradition that said democracy was weakness.""We survived. Not because we were stronger. Because we were willing to sacrifice everything for the right to choose. Two hundred seventeen wolves died proving that choice mattered more than safety. That freedom was worth any price."I looked at the memorial
Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart The final test
RAVEN The threat didn't come from coalition remnants or assassination attempts or internal discord.It came from humans."The United States government is demanding renegotiation of our treaty." Rodriguez's emergency briefing interrupted a routine budget meeting. "They're claiming we've expanded beyond the original territorial agreements. That seventy-eight packs across multiple continents constitute a sovereign nation requiring formal diplomatic recognition.""That's good, right?" Sara asked. "Recognition means legitimacy.""It means they want to regulate us. Tax us. Control us." Marcus studied the official documents. "I've seen this pattern. Humans recognize supernatural entities only when they want to exploit or contain them. Never out of genuine respect.""What are their specific demands?" I scanned the treaty proposal."Registration of all wolves. GPS tracking. Mandatory reporting of pack movements. Restrictions on international expansion. Essentially, they want to know where eve
Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart The price of peace
RAVEN The crisis came not from enemies but from success.Seventy-eight democratic packs now existed across four continents. Growth so rapid we couldn't properly integrate new members. Couldn't train them in democratic processes. Couldn't ensure they understood the principles behind the procedures."The Brazilian packs are fighting among themselves." Rodriguez's report was grim. "Three reformed packs in territorial dispute. They're demanding Council arbitration but won't accept our authority to enforce decisions. They want democracy's benefits without its constraints.""That's the pattern everywhere." Alpha Catherine looked exhausted. "We're spreading faster than we can educate. Wolves join because they see prosperity, not because they understand principles. When democracy gets hard, they quit.""So we're failing because we're succeeding too fast?" The irony wasn't lost on me. "We won the war but we're losing the peace.""We need to slow expansion." Alpha William's suggestion surprise
Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart Succession
RAVEN The poison was slow-acting. Professional. Designed to look like natural illness rather than assassination.Chen caught it three days into my "flu"—noticed symptoms that didn't quite match, ran tests that revealed traces of wolfsbane derivative in my system. Enough to kill me within a week if untreated."Who?" I asked from the medical bed where I'd been confined."We don't know yet. It was in your food, but the compound cafeteria serves two hundred wolves daily. Could have been anyone." Kira's frustration was palpable. "We're testing everyone who had access, but—""But finding one poisoner among two hundred suspects is nearly impossible." I closed my eyes, exhausted by my body's fight against the toxin. "How long do I have?""Chen's neutralizing agent is working. You'll recover fully in a week, maybe two." Rodriguez sat beside my bed. "But Raven, this is the fourth attempt this year. Assassination is becoming routine. Eventually, one will succeed.""I know.""So what do we do? I
Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart Evolution
RAVEN The anniversary ceremony drew wolves from fifty-three packs. Fifty-three democratic territories where a year ago there had been only twenty-three. Growth. Evolution. Democracy spreading like wildfire.I stood before the memorial wall, now expanded to hold two hundred seventeen names. Nine more wolves had died in the year since the solstice—accidents, illness, one assassination attempt, natural causes. Far fewer than the hundred seventy-three who'd fallen in a single battle.Progress measured in lives saved. In deaths that were tragic rather than catastrophic."One year." Alpha Catherine stood beside me, grey in her hair that hadn't been there last winter. "A year since we thought we'd all die. Since we faced impossible odds and somehow survived.""We lost good wolves." I touched Jax's name, the ritual that started every difficult day. "Too many good wolves.""But we saved more. Built more. Became more." She gestured to the gathering crowd. "Look at them. Fifty-three Alphas work
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