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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

a Greytooth. Both him

glad to hear they

died. Her and my uncle.

I said, feeling

do you know them?” Ayla

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

snuggled back into the couch, crossing

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

familiar. Isn’t that the territory out to the west that’s mostly abandoned now?”

of wolf shifters in this part

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

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massacre.”

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

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

about your parents?” Ayla

back. for my father,” I said

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

in my hand, wanting

child a few years prior. They asked if they could adopt me,” I said, smiling at

said, rubbing her thumb along the back of my

and aunt and

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

ever see them

to visit me a couple times. The last

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