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| this contrived nonsense," he said from between clenched teeth. "I'll give you two minutes to get that damn buggy turned around and then two more to get off my property, or by God, the next bullet I put into your body won't just cripple you. I plan for this one to go straight into that black heart of yours." |

| "I've not told too many people what I'm about to tell you," Silas said, his eyes wavering as once again he gazed at Tobias. "Long ago I was involved in a forbidden love. I fell in love with Bianca's mother. She was a full-blooded Aborigine, but more beautiful than any other woman I'd ever seen. But I was a magistrate, looked up to as a pillar of the community. I was forced to relinquish the woman I loved because of that and cast her aside, even when she told me that she was pregnant with my child. My position in the community was more important to me than the woman I loved, or her child, Bianca. I stayed my distance. I never laid claim to my daughter. I made sure never to go near her mother because I knew that she would kill me for how Bianca turned out. A whore. A cheap whore." |

| Sasha's mind was spinning with the tale and its implications. He did sound so sincere! He could be Tobias's grandfather! |

| Oh, how she wanted to run away with Tobias and hide! She could not let this evil, twisted man stand in the way of adopting Tobias. He was already too much a part of her, as though she had carried him within her womb and borne the pain of his birth! |

| Surely the pain of that birthing could be no less than the pain that she was feeling now! |

| "And you expect us to believe that?" Ashton said, yet fearing that what he heard was the absolute |

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