POV: Cormac Brennan
Location: Brennan Townhouse, Kensington
Time: Three Weeks After Father's Death
Beta Declan spreads pack financial records across Father's desk. Three decades of accounts, investments, territory revenues. Everything that keeps three hundred wolves housed, fed, and functioning.
"The estate's more complicated than your father let on," Declan says. "Multiple holding companies, offshore accounts, investments spanning six countries. He kept everything compartmentalized."
"Why?"
"Protection. If one account gets compromised, the others remain secure." Declan points to a ledger. "This is pack operations. Salaries, territory maintenance, security costs. About two million pounds annually."
"And we generate how much?"
"Four million from territory revenues, another million f
