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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

a Greytooth. Both him and my

was with him?” I asked, glad to hear they had managed

“She died. Her and my uncle. In the same

feeling my

know

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

the couch, crossing

they weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have

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

nodded. “That was your father’s pack. Your grandfather was the Alpha. They were from one of the oldest bloodlines of wolf shifters in this part of the world. It made them very

some secret society who believed the Dominis family had too much power and were a threat to all the packs.

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massacre.”

part of my past. I still had nightmares sometimes. But I wasn’t about to plague Ayla with

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

your

went back. for my father,”

my hand with both of hers. “I’m so

in my hand, wanting her

their only child a few years prior. They asked if they could adopt me,” I said, smiling at the memory.

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

and aunt and

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

you ever

me a couple times. The last time was when I was

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