Angelina felt her lips were too stiff and dry to reply, but somehow she managed to say,
“I-I understand.”
“Do you?” the Prince asked. “No, it is impossible! You are too pure and innocent, Angelina, to know that I am being tempted by all the devils in hell to take you while I have the opportunity!”
There was silence before he went on in a quieter tone,
“But between us, there stands an angel with a flaming sword. Your angel, my darling, who is protecting you, even if you are unaware of it, from a man who is burning in the unquenchable fire of hell.”
He raised her hand to his lips as he spoke and kissed it passionately and possessively and she knew that, as he was determined to control himself, he dared not kiss her lips.
The carriage had come to a standstill beside the bridge of the Se
