Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice XXI

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She stared at the stern woman standing in front of her... her face devoid of any emotion.

"What are you doing here?" Sultan asked her derisively. From her periphery, she saw other members of the household come out and address her. Her father, her mother, her uncles and aunts, and Akin. But she ignored them. She just needed an explanation from the women standing in front of her... the railing of the gates still closed to her... as if she was some outsider....

She swallowed back her emotions... feeling so alone in this world.... even though she had such a huge family...

She watched them all... searching their eyes for some happiness or fondness or compassion for seeing her after 7 long years...

But only hatred and contempt stared back at her from everyone... except her Baba and Akin...

They looked back helplessly... knowing they could do nothing without the consent of Sultan Kocovali.

She brought her gaze back to the wretched woman who had destroyed her life.

"Why did you do all that?" she asked softly. She saw immediate understanding cross her eyes as to what she had come to address. Sultan stared back sternly for a moment before turning to the people standing behind her... ordering them all to go back inside. Her Baba and Akin looked hesitant... but they were never able to refuse Sultan's orders... especially now that she had accepted them and forgiven them for all the crimes they had done in the past...

Once they were left alone, she turned back to face her.

"What did I do?" Sultan asked pretending innocence. She clenched her own teeth, unable to believe the guts of this woman.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about..." she answered through clenched teeth. Sultan eyes grew big with anger.

"I did... what had to be done..." Sultan answered nonchalantly... as if Karaca's life and heart hadn't been shredded into pieces...

"You destroyed my life!" she screamed, unable to control herself. "How could you?" she accused, tears burning her eyes.

Sultan's eyes grew even bigger in anger.

"How could I? How could I?" Sultan yelled back bewilderedly. "How could you?" she accused back. "How could you fall in love with that murderer. How could you marry Idris's killer? How could you share the bed of the man that destroyed my family?" Sultan spewed back at her.

Shock cruised through her body at the blatant accusations.

"You were sent to that house to protect my family. You had one job... one bloody job that would make you worthy of being a Kocovali... and what did you do?" Sultan accused her. "You fell in love with Idris's killer. You became his who*e..."

She felt a chill run down her spine as her own grandmother addressed her of being a who*e.

"I-" she started to explain that it wasn't like that. That Azer wasn't like that... that he hadn't known that it was Idris who was going to get killed. It was been Akin and Yucel's plan... her Azer had just given them his men...

He had told her about it at the very beginning of their relationship. And she believed him.

The man had never lied to her about anything...