Chapter 85

For everything else, there would always be Switzerland.

Internally, we conceived of our own race as a business in which the “division” with the largest number of members obtained the most influence over the others. The European families, the front of the Gray Wolves, were the most important end in the Hexagon: they had the right to be reviewers of the zonal “alphas” and to be the ones who passed the clean reports to my father. The White Wolves, always considered “above” the Hexagon, had by default the majority portion of the interests of the group in general and therefore, we were the “owners.” Someone had to stand up for everyone.

The concept of “pack” changed a lot in those years. As a result of these new policies, the patriarchal scale was no longer considered a monarchy; we all became equal and had the same opportunities, apparently, but it was a formality. Everyone knew that Mikhail and I remained their princes and my mother and father their most respected leaders a