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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was a Greytooth. Both

to hear they had managed to stay

her eyes. “She died. Her and my uncle. In the same explosion that

said, feeling

do you know them?” Ayla

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

the queue, Ayla snuggled back into the couch, crossing her arms and waiting for

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

familiar. Isn’t that the territory out to the west that’s mostly

Alpha. They 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

by some secret society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to all the packs. They weren’t, but it didn’t matter. They took over the capital.

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massacre.”

I still had

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.

your

but went back. for my father,” I said

hand with both of hers.

firmly in my hand, wanting

said, smiling at the memory. “Both your aunt and your dad thought it would be safer than staying with them. So, I stayed here and became the

thumb along the back

never forgot your father and aunt and

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where they ended up, but it

ever see them

nodded. “He came to visit me a couple times. The

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