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| you doing here?'' he demanded hotly. "Or need I ask?" |

| "I wanted to come with you and you know it," she said stubbornly. |

| "But you said that you would stay home," he growled back. |

| "Sometimes it is necessary to go back on one's word," Sasha defended herself. "I have as much right to search for Rufus's killer as you. Do you forget so easily that we are in partnership together?" |

| Ashton gave her a little shake. "I intend to change the status of that partnership one day, he said. "When you become my wife, I hope you will know your placeand it won't be to accompany me on manhunts!" |

| Sasha was torn with feelingswondrous feelings to think that he cared enough to make her his legal wife, yet angry feelings to realize that he still set her apart from him in that she did not have the ability to participate in all sorts of exciting ventures. |

| Sasha shook herself free of his hands. "One cannot be sure of anything except the present," she said, rubbing her shoulder where it still stung from his tight grip. "And as for now, you can quit being so bullish. Yes, perhaps I did make a mistake riding off without telling you, but I am here and there is nothing you can do about it." |

| Ashton sighed heavily and wove his fingers frustratingly through his hair. "I suppose you are right." His eyes softened as he gazed down at her. "Do you truly know the danger you put yourself in by traveling alone? My God, woman, were you intending to sleep here all alone? Anyone could've come up on you in the middle of the night and taken |

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