Chapter 18: Kingston

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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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about your dad? Do you

was a Greytooth. Both him and my

glad to hear they had managed to stay

died. Her and my uncle. In the same explosion

feeling my own

do you know

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

the couch, crossing her arms and waiting

Greytooth

territory out to the west that’s mostly abandoned

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

society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to

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massacre.”

I still had nightmares sometimes. But I wasn’t about to plague Ayla with

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 to find sanctuary in a nearby pack. But your father thought staying so close wouldn’t

about your parents?”

out with us originally but went back. for my father,” I said solemnly. “They didn’t make

hand with both of hers.

in

took a shine to me. They had lost their only child a few years prior. They asked if they could adopt me,” I said, smiling at the memory. “Both your aunt and your

Kingston,” Ayla said, rubbing her thumb along

never forgot your father and aunt and

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where they ended up, but

you ever see them

me a couple times. The

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