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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know about your dad? Do you

was a Greytooth. Both him and my

with him?” I asked, glad to hear they had managed to stay together.

died. Her

said, feeling

know

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

couch, crossing her arms and waiting for me

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

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

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

by some secret society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to all the packs. They weren’t,

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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 about to plague

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

your parents?” Ayla

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

with both of hers.

them more firmly in my hand,

dad managed to get us here, to the Sablemane Pack. The Alpha and Luna 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

her thumb along the back of my hand, sending chills

your father and aunt and everything

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never knew where they ended up, but it

ever see

to visit me a couple times.

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