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Chapter 23 - Will you Marry me, My King?

"What?! " exclaimed Bohemond, as Henry stood up from his chair, stunned. "My king, please think about it.. it's a foolish mistake!" he yelled.

"It is not a foolish mistake... I will marry her one way or another because we have already consummated, and as a man, I must honor thy lady Chasity," he explains.

"Your highness," I said softly, puzzled, to King Baldwin.

"You scoundrel!!!" Bohemond attacks the King as he pulls on the King's robe, glaring viscously at Baldwin. "What did you say? leper?... even if you are the King, I will not allow the likes of you to touch my sister," he raged.

The nobles gasped in horror and began to panic, with Jerusalem's knight immediately drawing their sword as soon as Bohemond assailed their King, and the Antioch knight doing the same to protect their prince.

Baldwin calmly gripped Bohemond's hands in his robe, "let me go," he said calmly. As the knights prepared to attack, I grabbed Bohemond's arms, "let him go," I demanded.

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