Soooo the whole "it was a dark and stormy night" line was inspired por the thing we did in my leitura class (yeah ok so I'm not the real Kate but whatever. Nobody is irl). And the story was inspired from that one line.
The western pack have mistreated all the omegas and only care for alphas. Humphrey and the omegas moved with the Eastern pack and have a better life, but at war.