“We’ll be rich like ye nobs out in Australia,” said the second man, “and no one will know who we are.”
She wanted to ask the man why he needed her to pen the ransom note, but got her answer a minute later when the second man muttered to the first, “It’s better this way. He’ll know she still lives.”
The second man replied, “We coulda been gone ’fore now if his lordship had wrote the note when we first got her.”
Lia snapped to attention in the dark room and hoped her jailers couldn’t see her face. She knew now, Lord Whitby was involved. She had to think quickly. She needed a way to let her husband know. Then it hit her. Write the note in Italian. These men were likely unable to write in their own language, much less hers. It made what she was about to do an enormous risk, though one she h
