The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 18

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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know about your dad? Do you know where he

a Greytooth. Both him

him?” I asked, glad to hear they had managed to

died. Her and my uncle. In

feeling my

know them?”

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

Ayla snuggled back into the couch, crossing

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

the territory out to the west that’s mostly abandoned

was the 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

society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to all the packs. They weren’t, but it

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massacre.”

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

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 be safe for him and

your parents?”

back. for my father,” I said solemnly. “They didn’t make

hand with both

firmly in my

The Alpha and Luna allowed us passage through their lands. But they 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 dad thought it would be safer than staying with them. So, I stayed here and became the Alpha of the Sablemanes.

her thumb along the back of my hand, sending chills through

never forgot your father and aunt and everything they did

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they ended up, but

ever see them

to visit me a couple times.

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