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

There was nothing merciful about the way he was bitten. It was worse than Matthew could have imagined: hot, searing agony as his skin was punctured and Arius’s fangs sunk into the tissue and muscle; a cruel, prodding tongue that worked the skin and pulled at the tears, wrenchedat them; and a ruthless sucking that felt like it would pull everything inMatthew’s forearm out. The seconds that Matthew was able to suppress the sounds threatening to come out of his throat were not nearly as satisfying as he would have hoped. Then he gave himself over to the pain—the fear, the sense of violation—and with his body shaking and his muscles as hard as stones, he started to cry.


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