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

was a Greytooth. Both him and my

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

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

said, feeling my

do you know them?”

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

back into the couch, crossing her arms and waiting for me to

chuckled. “Well, to start, they weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have you

sounds familiar. Isn’t that the territory out to

“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 powerful, which in turn, made them targets

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

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massacre.”

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

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 or

about your parents?” Ayla

out with us originally but went back. for my father,” I said

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

them more firmly in my

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

Kingston,” Ayla said, rubbing her thumb along the

never 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

ever see

me a couple times. The last

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