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Chapter Fifty: Campaign of Fear

Author: Harry Green
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-12 08:05:49

Hope's progressive policies make enemies.

Six months into her leadership, threatening letters start arriving. Anonymous, vicious, targeting her gender, her age, her decisions.

"You're a disgrace to the Silverclaw name."

"Female alphas bring weakness. Step down before you destroy the pack."

"Tradition exists for a reason. You're ruining everything."

Hope burns them without responding. But the letters escalate to vandalism—pack house walls spraypainted with slurs, her car tires slashed, threatening symbols left on her doorstep.

"This is organized," Connor says, examining the latest incident. "Someone's running a campaign to undermine you."

"Let them try. I'm not backing down."

"Hope, this could be dangerous—"

"Dad, I appreciate the concern. But I knew being a female alpha would attract hate. I'm prepared for it."

She's not prepared for what comes next.

A young refugee wolf—one Hope personally welcomed into the pack—is found dead. Murdered, with a note pinned to his body: "This is what h
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