Alpha Step Daddy : Four Mates, One heart의 모든 챕터: 챕터 81 - 챕터 86

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

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

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