It's been months since anyone at the Committee has had any contact from the O'Connell family or their pack members, and they are not happy. Suspicious of the activities that took place in D.C. and determined to find out what the wolves are up to, the Committee recruits one of their newest residents, Dr. Matthew Dietrich, to play the part of neighbor and infiltrate the family.<br><br>Matthew has always been a keep-to-himself kind of person. Though idealistic and optimistic, he prefers to work in solitude, at night, while he researches the findings that he hopes will one day change the world. When he's approached by the executives of the Center, he has no idea why they'd choose him. And to say he is skeptical over the concept of men that can shift into wolves would be an understatement.<br>

Wolf, in League

“Yes.” Gavin agreed. He was close enough that Matthew could smell his breath. It wasn’t entirely fresh, but it was sweet. A weird sweet, the kind of sweet that a mind associated with sharp wine—by nose sweet to the point of cloying, by taste dry to the point of tears.


“Tell me, Matthew. Are they scared stiff or have they been charmed?”


Gavin was uncomfortably close but Matthew didn’t move away. Short of standing and walking away from the bed (which he refused to do because he didn’t want to make it seem like he was giving Gavin any more control of the situation), he couldn’t. He’d fall right off the corner of the mattress and look like a blinking fool if he shifted even a couple of inches. “They’re assessing. Waiting to see if the circumstance requires fight or flight. Nothing more, nothing less.”


Chapter 16