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| Chapter Nine |

| Bubbles surfacing close to Sasha made her aware that someone was still there beneath the water. She wanted to run, and she eyed the shore anxiously, but her knees were too weak from fear to move. |

| She gasped and looked quickly around when Ashton burst through the surface, breathing harshly. ''You!" she said, folding her arms over her breasts in an attempt to cover them. "All along it was you!" |

| He inhaled a deep breath of air and forked his fingers through his hair to draw it back from his face. His kangaroo-hide shirt clinging to his shoulders and chest. "What can I say?" he said. "This was all done in innocence, Sasha. I didn't mean to frighten you." |

| Sasha's eyes were aflame with rage, and her nostrils flared angrily as she glared up at Ashton. |

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