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

If Lyle had been in human form in that moment, Matthew was more than sure Vaughn would have never been able to hold him back.


Gavin crouched in the corner of the living room with the drapery wrapped around him like a shroud. Matthew knew him by his bare feet. Matthew began to flump toward the huddled shape, uselessly humping his body up and down, side to side. “Gavin! Somebody, please! Gavin!”


The wolves turned to stare at him, but it was Vaughn who moved to help. Vaughn drew the drapes back into place, held out his hand to Gavin, and muscled Gavin onto the couch. At the same time, a familiar clump, clump, thunksounded above them. Matthew had heard thatsound before. It was the sound of a body being dragged either down or into the hallway.


Chapter 59