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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dad? Do you know

a Greytooth. Both him and

with him?” I asked, glad to hear they had managed to stay together. “How

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

said, feeling my

you know them?”

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

the couch, crossing her arms and waiting

start, they weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have you

sounds familiar. Isn’t that the territory out

father’s pack. Your grandfather was the Alpha. They were from one of the oldest bloodlines of wolf shifters in this part of the world. It

who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to all the packs.

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massacre.”

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

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 to find

about your parents?”

back. for my father,” I said solemnly.

my hand with both of

firmly in my hand, wanting

a few years prior. They asked if they could adopt me,” I said, smiling at the memory. “Both your aunt and your dad

Ayla said, rubbing her thumb

father and aunt and everything

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

ever

visit me a couple times. The last time was

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