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 was

Both

to hear they had managed to stay together. “How is

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

said, feeling my own

do you know

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

into the couch, crossing

start, they weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have you

Isn’t that the territory out

were from one of the oldest bloodlines of wolf shifters in this part of the world. It made

born, a coup was 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

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massacre.”

was hard for me to talk about that part of my past. I still had nightmares sometimes. But I wasn’t about to plague

was 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 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

with us originally but went back. for my father,” I said solemnly. “They

forward, grabbing my hand with both of

took them more firmly in my

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,

her thumb along the back of my hand, sending chills through me.

never forgot your father and aunt

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ended up, but it makes

you ever

me a couple

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