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 about your dad? Do you know

was a Greytooth. Both him and my

hear they

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

said, feeling my

know them?”

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

snuggled back into the couch, crossing

to start, they weren’t born in Greytooth territory.

“It sounds familiar. Isn’t that the territory out

was your 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 made them very powerful,

secret society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to

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massacre.”

to talk about that part of my past. I still had nightmares sometimes.

a member of

about your parents?” Ayla

gotten out with us originally but went back. for my father,” I said solemnly. “They didn’t make

forward, grabbing my hand with both of

more firmly in my hand,

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,

and aunt

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

ever see

came to visit me a couple times. The last time

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