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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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your dad? Do you know where

Greytooth. Both him and my

hear they had managed to stay together.

eyes. “She died. Her and my

feeling my own

do you know

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

queue, Ayla snuggled back into the couch, crossing her

weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have you ever heard of the

the territory out to the west that’s mostly abandoned now?”

of the oldest bloodlines of wolf shifters in this part of the world. It made them very powerful, which

few years before you were born, a coup was executed by some secret society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to all the packs. They

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massacre.”

hard for me to talk about that part of my past. I still had nightmares sometimes. But I wasn’t about to plague Ayla with

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

your

but went back. for my father,” I said solemnly. “They

grabbing my hand with

in my hand, wanting her

child a few years prior. They asked if they could adopt me,” I said, smiling at the memory. “Both your aunt and your dad thought it would be safer than staying

thumb along the back of my hand, sending chills

never forgot your father and

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where they ended up, but

ever see

nodded. “He came to visit me a couple

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