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

The trip down the road was a short one, but an uneasy one. Tall trees hung dark and heavy over both sides of the roadway and beyond those trees, and even with a bit of light still in the sky, the darkness seemed impenetrable. I feel like I should be holding a basket and wearing a hood,Matthew thought. A little red riding hood.


“Stay out of my head,” Matthew mumbled, but there was a smile on his face when he said it. He considered Lyle’s annoyance over Rafe knowing what was to come and wondered over it for a minute or two. Now that he was getting used to it, he kind of liked knowing somebody could hear the thoughts he wasn’t comfortable with saying aloud. It was oddly intimate, and tossing a thought or two was a lot less work than having to come up with conversation. The exchange was natural and unstilted—if a person could consider something like that natural.


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