Once There Were Wolves

Duncan brings Inti into the station to question her about Stuart’s disappearance. He asks about her whereabouts the previous night and her involvement in the wolf project. After establishing her motive for killing Stuart, he digs into Inti’s past, attempting to unearth the reason for her protectiveness of Lainey. She does not tell him about her sister’s rape. Instead, she tells him about her mirror-touch synesthesia, which makes it nearly impossible for her to harm someone, let alone kill them.

At home, Inti finds Aggie awake, reading by the fire. She tells her that she is going to join the search party for Stuart. Aggie signs that she can come if Inti wants her to, but Inti knows that she will not be able to leave the house. She wants to tell Aggie that she buried Stuart’s body, but she knows that Aggie’s mental condition is too weak to handle such news. The party searches for Stuart’s body until nightfall but finds nothing.

The story flashes back to Inti’s life in Sydney after their father disappears. Inti threw herself into studying, and Aggie threw herself into dating. At Sydney University, Inti meets a man who asks about her PhD program. He scoffs at her attempts to learn about wolves from books. He is studying to be a neurosurgeon and believes that all sensations and perceptions are in the mind, not the body.

They sleep together, and in the morning he drives her home. Inti finds it strange that he did not ask her name and knew where she lived. When he enters the house, Aggie recognizes him; he is her boyfriend, Gus Holloway.

Gus did not know Aggie had a twin and mistook Inti for her. When he leaves, Aggie proposes they share him, like they share everything else. Inti has a bad feeling about Gus, and Aggie admits that he does not have a very nice personality.

Two weeks after Stuart’s disappearance, the town holds a meeting. Lainey’s brothers are offering a reward for anyone who has information about his whereabouts. A woman in the crowd says that wolves cannot confess.

Meanwhile, Inti is growing more attached to Number Six and her pack. This is dangerous because wolves avoid the smell of humans. Her presence can endanger the pups because Six may abandon them if the smell of humans is too close.

At home, Aggie has made vegetable lasagna. She reveals that she knows Inti is pregnant. Inti denies that it is Duncan’s baby and implies that she will end the pregnancy.

Later that night, Inti goes to Duncan’s dinner party. The other guests ask her about the wolves, and the conversation becomes awkward. Lainey arrives and follows Duncan into his bedroom. One of the guests reveals that Duncan and Lainey had a relationship before she married Stuart, and they had an affair after Lainey’s marriage. Inti is angry because she assumes that Duncan is still involved with Lainey. Now she thinks he had an even greater motive to kill Stuart.