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

“Did you know you’d be all right?” Matthew asked the floor. “I mean, the curtains…wrapping them around you…that was clever. Did you know that would work? Did you think about it first?” He lifted his head. The next question was too personal to ask of the concrete. “Did you think you were going to die?”


Gavin’s stare was as direct, but unreadable. “I’m afraid that if I answer that. you’re going to think that I’m manipulating you. Playing with your emotions to make you like me back.”


Matthew snorted. “I already like you, Gavin. Knowing that you were being smart—or that you weren’t—isn’t going to make me feel something I don’t.” The second the final word was out of his mouth, it felt like a lie. And if not a lie, at least wrong. Somehow. Something in his chest told him he had to correct how it had sounded. “Or change something I might already be feeling.”


Chapter 64