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Isabel
Isabel fled to her room. She simply had to get control of herself. Everything inside her was drawn to the man as though he were a magnet. She'd never experienced this rush of sensations whip through her, and the intense desire to do the most inappropriate things—like reach out and touch his bare hands. She wondered if it would affect him as much as it would her.
It would be so easy to fall into disgrace with him. Heaven help her but that was something she could not do. It would break her father’s heart. While her mother might understand if Isabel tried to explain about the attraction she felt to the earl, she knew both her parents would be disappointed in her if she disgraced them. So Isabel couldn’t bear to do that.
If she didn’t calm her racing heart, and the strange feeling
