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 where he was

was a Greytooth. Both him

hear they had managed to stay together.

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

said, feeling my

know

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

Ayla snuggled back into the couch, crossing her

weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have

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

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

some secret society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and

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massacre.”

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

who wasn’t a member of the Alpha’s inner circle managed to find sanctuary in a nearby pack. But your father

your

but went back. for my

forward, grabbing my hand with

more firmly in

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

thumb along the back of my hand,

forgot your father and aunt and everything they did

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

you ever see them

a couple times. The last time

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