NIKOLAI
There hadn’t been much improvement in training. I reminded myself that we’d only been here for a short period of time. These things took time. In our pack, we had never expected anything of our women, not even to pass the bare minimum physical requirements that packs in the US apparently had. While I’d come to understand that Tyce’s pack was considered traditional for the standards here, they were still far more progressive than the vast majority of packs in Eastern Europe.
Before the war, it had made sense. Women were to be protected and cherished. They made a house a home, a dead animal a meal, a mating a family. Each gender brought its own strength. But what if a pack was only forty, half of which were women? Then what?
We no longer had families, we ate for survival, not for
