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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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know about your dad? Do you know where he

a Greytooth. Both him

to hear they had managed

confusion and sadness in her eyes. “She died. Her and my

feeling my

know them?”

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

Ayla snuggled back into the couch,

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

“It sounds familiar. Isn’t that the territory out to the

shifters in this part of the world. It made them very powerful, which in turn, made them targets of other packs and

much power and were a threat to all the packs. They weren’t, but it didn’t matter.

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massacre.”

was hard for me to talk about that part of my past. I still had nightmares sometimes.

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

your

but went back. for

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

them more firmly in my

allowed us passage through their 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 for it. They

rubbing her thumb along the back of my hand, sending chills

your father and aunt and everything they did

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they ended up, but it makes me

ever

to visit me a couple

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