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| a room and a comfortable bed until they made plans again for their future, it did not ease her mind into sleep. Her mind had been filled with tumultuous thoughts, trying to come up with a way to make Ashton feel less at fault for what had happened. |

| But she knew that no matter what she said or did, he would blame himself forever for their losses. |

| "Good, that means you slept," Ashton said, gently smoothing fallen locks of hair back from Sasha's eyes. He drew her next to him and cuddled her close. "I've got to think of a way to repay Sam for his generosity in letting us stay over his pub. We'd best check on Bianca and the baby soon. Though they are in the room next to us, I feel uneasy about leaving them alone. Bianca was behaving quite strangely last night, don't you think?" |

| "Yes, quite," Sasha whispered, straining her ear for any sounds coming from the next room. She hadn't wanted to leave Bianca and the baby alone, yet when Sam had been generous enough to lend them two of his vacant rooms instead of one, it had been Bianca who had insisted that they sleep in separate rooms. Her excuse had been the babythat he might cry through the night and disturb Ashton's and Sasha's sleep. |

| And because Sasha had known how tired Ashton was, she had not had the heart to say no. |

| "I'm going to try to get a loan today, Sasha," Ashton said, changing the subject. He eased her from his arms and rose from the bed, slipping into his breeches. "We can either put money down on another pub, or we can take one more stab at making a go of it in the outback." |

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