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

A light went off in Matthew’s head. He wants to use the sunlight…He turned his gaze from the wiggling fingers and looked at Gavin, who nodded fiercely.


Yes!Gavin mouthed. He smiled, but it was a nervous, small smile.


Matthew looked at the small sliver of sunlight on the floor of the living room and a flutter of hope began to rise in his chest. That could work, couldn’t it? They hadn’t taken any of the precautions that Matthew had seen Gavin take. Neither vampire wore dark glasses. Their faces and hands were exposed. Shorty even had bare arms.


And that was when it hit him: the reason why that plan could never work.


He’d been looking at the slice of light and now he raised his head. He stared at Gavin and shook his head. It could kill you.


Chapter 56