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| Chapter Thirty-Four |

| Sasha awakened from a troubled sleep, sweat pearling her brow. She turned to Ashton in the bed, sighing with relief when she found him still there. In her dream, she had been stranded in the middle of the outback, alone. She had searched frantically for Ashton and her children, but never found them. Just before she awakened, she had fainted beneath the pounding rays of the sun. . . . |

| A knock on the door startled her from the bed. As Ashton leaned up on an elbow, wiping sleep from his eyes, she slipped on a robe and rushed to the door. Her knees grew weak when she opened it to Crispin and saw dried blood on his forehead where a purplish knot loomed from his scalp. |

| "My Lord, what happened?" Sasha gasped, grabbing the door to steady herself against it. Then she paled as she gazed down the corridor toward |

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