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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Do you know where he

Both him

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

died. Her and my uncle. In the same explosion that killed

I said, feeling my own

know them?”

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

into the couch, crossing

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

brow furrowed. “It sounds familiar. Isn’t that the territory out to the west that’s mostly abandoned

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

a coup was executed by some secret society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were

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massacre.”

that part of my past. I still had nightmares sometimes. But I

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 Lacy or

about your parents?” Ayla

had gotten out with us originally but went back. for my father,” I

grabbing my hand with both of hers. “I’m so sorry,

took them more firmly in

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.

you had that, Kingston,” Ayla said, rubbing her thumb along

forgot your father and aunt and everything they did

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where they ended up, but it makes

ever

came to visit me a couple times.

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