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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

Greytooth. Both

with him?” I asked, glad to hear they

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

I said, feeling my own

know

“It’s complicated,” I teased.

couch, crossing

weren’t born in Greytooth territory. Have you ever heard

territory out to

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

family had too much power and were

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massacre.”

part of my past. I still had

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 sanctuary in a nearby

about your parents?” Ayla

originally but went back. for my father,” I said solemnly. “They didn’t

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

took them more firmly in

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 aunt

rubbing her thumb along the back of my hand,

your father and aunt

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

you ever see them

visit me a couple times.

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