Chapter Three“You are very handsome and very strong!” the Marquesa Isabella purred in a soft seductive voice. “I need to be strong with you,” the Earl answered her. Never in his long acquaintance with women had he ever met anyone more passionate and more insatiable than the Marquesa Isabella Alcalá. He thought when he had first seen her that she was extremely attractive. It had been at a stiff Diplomatic party where she was playing the part of Ambassadress with what the Earl admitted to her later was considerable skill. Their eyes had met and he had been aware that what she was saying to him silently was very different from what came from her lips. The Earl pursued his prey with the same ruthless determination that he applied to his horses and everything else. It was only a question