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

Matthew parted his lips, his voice already bubbling on the scream building in his throat as Gavin’s body landed, but the sound never got a chance to escape him. Arius caught him, clasped his mouth and nose in a grip so tight that Matthew’s bottom lip split against his teeth.


“Shh, now,” Arius whispered sharply into his ear. “We don’t want to wake the neighbors.”


The other vampires were nothing more than a blur from one place to the next. One second they stood watching Gavin fall, the next they were on top of him—ripping, tearing, spraying ruptures of black blood that slashed over the walls like some kind of bad attempt at modern art. Gavin might have been able to fend off a single attacker; three were insurmountable. For every punch Gavin landed, he took two more. For every gasp of pain or anger that he was awarded, three more were demanded from him.


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