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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you know about your dad? Do you know where he was from?”

was a Greytooth. Both him and my

asked, glad to hear they had

looked at me, confusion and sadness in her eyes. “She died. Her and my uncle. In the same explosion that

I said, feeling my

do you know them?”

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

into the couch, crossing her arms and waiting for me

Greytooth territory. Have you ever heard of

Isn’t that the territory out to the

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

before you were born, a coup was executed by some secret society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to all

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massacre.”

of my past. I still had nightmares sometimes. But I wasn’t about

your father’s Beta. Your father got me, your aunt, and a few others out of the packhouse and got us to safety. Then anyone who wasn’t a member of

your

originally but went back. for my father,” I said solemnly. “They didn’t

hand with both of hers. “I’m so

in my hand,

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. I’m grateful

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

your father and

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

ever

couple times. The

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