It was the first time that William spoke since she came to the sickening realization that he was there. She'd underestimated him time and time again over the previous nine months. Somehow she got the impression that he would never be able to succeed in his dastardly plans. Maybe if he didn't just happen to be former, or possibly current, lovers with the brother-in-law who hated her, she might have been correct. Once she was tied up and completely at the mercy of the two men, she knew that she'd been very wrong to think him nothing more than an annoyance. She should have taken care of him months earlier. It wouldn't have been difficult.