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| time she would change her mind." She sighed heavily. "I am so glad that she hasn't." |

| "If it's all right, I'm going to take Tobias out with me to get his present," Crispin said, holding Tobias gently within his arms. |

| "What present is that?" Ashton said as he walked into the house. |

| Crispin smiled broadly at Ashton. "Sasha will tell you all about it," he said, then carried Tobias from the house. |

| Sasha looked up at Ashton, tears again burning at the corners of her eyes. She flung herself into his arms, radiantly happy. "We need no longer fear any sort of problem with the adoption," she said. "Bianca has signed documents which relinquish her claim to Tobias forever." |

| Stunned by the news, Ashton held Sasha out away from himself and gazed intently down at her. "How can that be?" he gasped. "Bianca has as good as disappeared from the face of the earth. You know how damn hard I've tried to find her. And you say she has been in Melbourne? She met with our attorney?" |

| "Yes," Sasha said, wiping tears from her cheeks. "And all we have to do now is go into Melbourne and sign the papers. Tobias will be ours, Ashton. Our very own son." |

| Crispin came back into the house with Tobias, who was hugging a stuffed toy in the shape of a koala, his eyes proud. |

| "He likes it," Crispin said as he handed Tobias over to Ashton. "It's something to always remember his godfather by." |

| "That was very thoughtful of you, Crispin," Sasha |

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