A Deeper Blue (3 Colors Trilogy Book 2) by Bethany Maines

Author:Bethany Maines [Maines, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, romantic suspense, Shifter, biker romance, wolf, Fae, Fantasy
Publisher: Blue Zephyr Press
Published: 2022-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

Episode 16

Destiny

Rafe

The DeSandre pack lived on the outskirts of Portland on the edge of the Mt. Hood National Forest. Rafe had always considered it perfect for shifter wolves. Humanity was only a hop and a skip away, and the forest was on their back doorstep. Of course, humanity kept getting closer every year, but Albert had been active in the legal campaign to have Mt. Hood declared a National Forest. It was a move that had protected them through generations of humanity, and the pack had always been proud to have a leader who looked out for their best interests. Rafe remembered watching his father putting on his suit for the train ride to go testify. The black suit, with the dangling gold pocket watch, carefully tied cravat, frock coat, and top hat had been the height of fashion. Rafe still regretted that by the time he’d gotten around to being social enough to go anywhere that top hats had gone out of fashion.

From the 1890s, when the area was called the Bull Run Forest Reserve, to 1924, when it had been merged and expanded and finally declared a National Forest, Albert had been there. Albert had even pushed, in the 1940s, to have Mt. Hood moved from a National Forest to a National Park, which would have limited logging, but that effort had ultimately been unsuccessful. Considering that history, perhaps it wasn’t surprising that Albert would eventually set his sights on something more significant like the Super PAC, but it still seemed incomprehensible to Rafe. Albert had always been focused on the pack, but after Rafe’s mother had gotten sick in the early 1960s, Albert had withdrawn entirely from the outside world.

His mother had died from extreme DDT poisoning. Back then, the odorless chemical had been commonly used as an insecticide, and by the time they had figured out that it had leached into their water supply, it had been too late to save her. In retrospect, Albert’s withdrawal from the world made total sense, but at the time, it had seemed reactionary and aimed explicitly at Rafe, who had always been the most friendly with humans. Rafe could acknowledge, with sixty years of hindsight, that part of his behavior at the time had been a result of grief and the gnawing feeling that Albert was blaming him for her death. Rafe knew that Albert had also been under incredible stress and grief of his own, but that didn’t do much to ease the ache of losing both parents in one year.

This summit and Super PAC, or whatever Azure called it, seemed bigger than the pack, and Rafe wasn’t sure what to make of it. Azure seemed confident that Albert was the driving force behind the idea, but Rafe had his doubts.

Rafe looked over his shoulder at Azure, sleeping next to the bike, curled up in his sleeping bag. They’d stopped to get a few hours of rest, but Rafe hadn’t been able to settle down. Just looking at her made him feel as if his heart was expanding to fill up his chest.

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