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Chapter 18: Kingston

Shifting Ayla’s legs slightly, I carefully pulled two photos from my back pocket. I didn’t know how she would respond to the information I was about to give her. But I hoped it would

convince her to stay. At least stay with my pack. But I was still

nervous.

“Ayla, there was a reason I was so intent on helping you. Not just because it was the right thing to do,” I said. “It’s one of the reasons I want you to stay here.”

“Okay…” she said slowly.

I handed her one of the photos.

“That’s mine,” she said, taking it and holding it delicately. “I was worried I’d lost it in the crash.”

“I found it the next morning. Pierce and I had gone back when it was light out. I wasn’t sure at first, but when you woke up, I saw you had his eyes.” I smiled.

“You weren’t sure about what?”

“Ayla, I knew your father,” I said, handing her the second picture.

She snatched the photo from my fingers, confusion all over her face. It was a picture of me and her father. I was about ten at the time, but I’m sure she could tell it was me.

“How?”

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know about your dad? Do you know

Greytooth. Both him and

I asked, glad to hear they had managed to

sadness in her eyes. “She died. Her and my uncle.

I said, feeling

do you know them?”

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

snuggled back into the couch, crossing her arms and waiting for me to

“Well, to start, they weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have you ever heard

that the territory out to the west

one of the oldest bloodlines of wolf shifters in this part of the world. It made them very powerful, which in turn, made them targets of other packs and

much power and were a threat to all the

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massacre.”

of my past. I still had nightmares sometimes. But I wasn’t about to plague

was your father’s Beta. Your father got me, your aunt, and a few others out of the packhouse and got us to safety. Then anyone who wasn’t a member of the Alpha’s inner circle managed

about your parents?” Ayla

mother had gotten out with us originally but went back.

grabbing my hand with both of hers. “I’m so sorry,

in

asked if they could adopt me,” I said, smiling

her thumb along the back of my hand, sending

and aunt and everything they did

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said. “I never knew where they ended up, but it makes me happy that they stayed so close.”

you ever

visit me a couple times. The last

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