'May I?' he said.

She recognised that tone in his voice, It echoed her own sense of wonder whenever Hana was in view. 'Of course,' she said. She would never stop him seeing his daughter, but she had feared this moment most of all. 'So you knew...?'

'Of course I knew,' Khal murmured, nursing his daughter.

Of course he knew. That was the power he wielded. And as Khal stared into Hana's face Beth feared that this was not the tender lover she knew who had returned on a visit, but a warrior fresh from a war- a man who had come to claim his child.

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