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

And all the while, a mental image of Bruce Lee was playing through Matthew’s head. Except instead of telling Matthew to “Be water, my friend,” Bruce’s instructions had changed: Be mouse, my friend. Be mouse.


“The grammar of that is horrifying,” Matthew mumbled. And the thought was hardly helpful, either. Every time Matthew glanced in the rearview he expected to see himself with a twitching nose and whiskers. That wasn’t exactly a power image.


“Afternoon, Doc,” the guard said when he finally reached Matthew’s car. His voice was casual but his eyes never stopped roaming. Front seat, back seat, passenger side, driver side. “You still keeping up with God Eater?”


Matthew’s cheeks felt like plastic as he twisted his lips into a smile. “Oh, come on. I had ten episodes in before you’d even watched two. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you just don’t know how to binge watch.”


Chapter 73