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| purchase more sheep. We can't give up our dream, ever, Sasha." |

| "Oh, Ashton, you are making me feel hopeful when I see no reason to," Sasha said, sighing. "What sort of a plan? There is nothing left to work with to begin anew. All of our money was invested in what is now only ashes." |

| "Sasha, it's time I tell you more about my past," Ashton said, gripping her shoulders gently. "And this time, I vow to you, I will tell you everything." |

| Sasha winced at the way he was talking about his past. It was as though he expected her to reject him because of what he was. Did he not know that nothing he revealed to her now would surprise her? And didn't he know that nothing he told her would ever make her love him less? |

| But what was there about his past that had anything to do with this tragedy today? It seemed to be linked with the plan he had mentioneda plan that would return their dreams to them twofold! |

| "What is it, Ashton?" Sasha asked, looking devotedly up at him. "I want to hear it all. Please feel free to tell me. I love you. With all of my heart, I love you. Nothing you say will change that." |

| Ashton chuckled, his eyes dancing. "Sweet darlin', what I am going to reveal to you will not give you cause to hate me," he said. "What I did in my past was only for the good of the honest, hard-working people of Australia. I took it upon myself a few years back to find evidence of the corrupt ways of Melbourne's head of police at the time, but I became the hunted before I had the chance to show the proof of Superintendent Silas Howland's dirty deeds." |

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