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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about your dad? Do you know where he

was a Greytooth. Both him

him?” I asked, glad to hear they had managed to stay together. “How is

“She died. Her and my uncle. In the same explosion that

feeling

do you know them?” Ayla

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

couch, crossing her arms and waiting for me to

“Well, to start, they weren’t born in Greytooth

the territory out

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 other packs and a

executed 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 over the capital.

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massacre.”

still had nightmares sometimes. But I wasn’t about to plague

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

about your

had gotten out with us originally but went back. for my

with both of hers. “I’m so

more firmly in

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. I’m grateful for it. They were good to me and really loved me. And I

had that, Kingston,” Ayla said, rubbing her thumb along the back of my hand, sending chills

never forgot your father and aunt and everything

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

ever

me a couple times. The last time

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