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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you know about your dad? Do you know where he was

was a Greytooth. Both him and my

I asked, glad to hear they had managed to stay together.

and sadness in her eyes. “She died. Her

feeling

you know

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

couch, crossing her arms and waiting for me

start, they weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have you ever heard of the Onyxcrown Pack?”

furrowed. “It sounds familiar. Isn’t that the territory out to the

were from 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

power and

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massacre.”

past. I still had nightmares

a member of the Alpha’s inner circle managed to find sanctuary in a nearby pack. But your father thought

about your parents?”

back. for my

my hand with both of hers. “I’m so

firmly in my hand,

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

you had that, Kingston,” Ayla said, rubbing her thumb along the back of my

father and aunt and

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never knew where they ended up, but it makes me

ever see

came to visit me a couple times. The last time

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