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

Furthermore, Vaughn had his arm around Randy and seemed to be in quiet, reflective conversation already. They were into each other, the kind of men that enjoyed each other’s company more than any other company in the world. They walked with the quick, firm steps of men who had concerns they’d prefer to visit in the sanctity of their own space, with one another. Onlyone another. Lyle, on the other hand, walked a couple of steps behind the rest of them with his gaze on the ground and that frown still firmly stuck on his face. Here was an introspective thinker as opposed to a talker. A man that could (and probably did) figure things out better when he was left to his own devices and some quiet time. And that was the kind of person that Matthew could relate to. There was the age factor, too. Lyle was one of the few men in the group that Matthew actually had a couple of years on.


Matthew hurried forward to close the distance between him and his disappearing neighbors. “Lyle?”


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