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| Then he spun his revolvers back into their holsters and turned to look at Sasha. His gut twisted when he saw the tears streaming down her face, wetting Tobias's face where he had fallen asleep against her bosom. |

| ''What are we to do?" Sasha sobbed. "What if he comes back?" |

| "If he does, we'll be ready," Ashton said, moving up the steps, wrapping his arms around both Tobias and Sasha. "But, darling, I now see the need to get that adoption legalized quickly. We'll leave for Melbourne tomorrow." |

| "What if he tries to stop it?" Sasha asked, pleading up at Ashton through her tear-filled eyes. |

| "He won't, for the same reason he didn't before. He is not about to make an announcement for all to hear that he fathered a daughter by an Aborigine woman," Ashton said. "His pride won't allow it." |

| "Lord, I hope you're right," Sasha said, blinking tears from her thick lashes. "Ashton, I can't imagine life without Tobias. He is my heartmy very soul!" |

| "And mine also," Ashton whispered, gently kissing Sasha's brow. |

| "We can't let anything happen to our family," Sasha whispered, looking down at Tobias as he slept so peacefully, so trustingly in her arms. |

| Ashton nodded, yet he feared the journey to Melbourne. Even though there was no one with Silas as he had come on their property, that did not mean he did not have many armed friends hidden in the outback just waiting for instructions from himenough to fight off Ashton's men before he took Tobias by force. |

| He tried to reassure Sasha. "Things will be all |

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