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

Gavin’s gaze traveled up the building. He smiled. “I have no intention of going through the offices.”


David spoke from the backseat. “You aren’t saying what I think you’re saying, are you?”


“Yes.” Gavin cast a quick glance over his shoulder, then turned back to Matthew. “I’m going up. And through the window.”


“Gavin…” Matthew breathed the word more than he spoke it. All those Hollywood images that he’d been told to ignore suddenly rose in his head again: humanoid creatures skittering up sky-high buildings, clinging impossibly to smooth surfaces; men disappearing with puffs of smoke into bats and cats and rats. “I don’t know what you’re thinking but you’re not Arius. If Arius even could do something like that…I mean, can he? Do you even know? And if he can, what does that mean? It still doesn’t mean that youcan. You said yourself that things weren’t quite the…same. That you were different. Remember? You said that the virus ‘didn’t quite work’ for you.”


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