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“I’m Afraid,”

she admitted. “I’m afraid I won’t ever find out what happened in my past. I’m afraid that I will, and won’t be able to stand that knowledge. Who am I, Richard?” she asked desperately.

Slowly, almost as though he had to do so, he brought her against the strength of him. And, as though this, too, he had to do, he lowered his mouth to hers.

She knew this touch! Somehow, from countless longings and memories still hidden from her mind, she knew it. She sighed and surrendered to the sense of homecoming that washed over her.

But too soon she felt him drawing away from her.

“We can’t do this,” he said unevenly.

She felt bereft. Alone. A chill wind seemed to slice through her. “Why?” she asked. “Why?”

“Because you don’t know me, Alexandra. And because, God help me, I don’t know you.”