The other woman

The attack

After the concubines had been sacked from the palace his Majesty visited hurrem that night.  It was plain obvious that he was the love of her life and she was his. If I had asked for that I probably got in my head chopped off but hurrem was different she got what she wanted.today hurrem was having a lunch for everybody in the harem I was invited as well so I went along " thank you for the invite hurrem it's very sweet of you to invite me " I told her as we sat down. " of course it's wonderful to have you here" she told me. I knew she was only doing this to show how nice and friendly we were and make the harem like her. Which when you consider it is actually smart move. You always have to be thinking in a harem watching for enemies and people who wish to topple you. Hence why I've always been called a sultana, hurrem only became one after Mirhimahs birth a long time after that. Hurrem turns and tells everyone " enjoy, eat everyone, mind your scoops we put some gold in them" the girls become excited to try and find some gold in the delicious lunch she had prepared. " let's see who gets one, we will have dessert too " she continues as they play with the food with there spoons. " what a wonderful idea I must steal that from you and use it for when the children are being naughty" I turn and say to her. " please use it it's all for the fun " she says. The girls all praise are saying she's thoughtful and how God must bless her I will admit it was quite smart, soon happy squeals of gold been found filled harem.hurrem asks for mehmed to be brought but Maria tells her that she will go get him soon that he is in class with his brother. We all sit and eat and enjoy ourselves I put Dan on my lap and let hurrem feed him once in a while and aya rocks Ana's cradle suddenly gulsha comes and ask Maria to take mehemd and I can see hurrems fire flare up as she stands. " why was my son with you?" She asks. ". I want to take prince Mustafaa I saw mehmet and brought him here" she replies. Mehmed pipes up " she yelled at me mother " and that just makes a bear come out of hurrem we mothers won't have anyone yelling or children except us. Gulsha rolls her eyes the poor woman was doomed. " I do not want to see you with the prince mehemt ever again. And you will also call him prince. Or I will cut out your tongue." Hurrem says. " my job is to attend to the needs of Prince mustafa" gulsha replies ,"How dare you treat the princes differently? And you yelled at him?" Hurrem counters " hurrem hatun.." starts to say" you will call me sultan !" Get out, I don't want to see your disgusting face ever again, go now before I do something bad. What are you waiting for go! Hurrem says. The poor woman looks to the girls for help and then takes her leave hurrem turned around and kissed her son then sat down again." Mehemd look how handsome you are " I tell him as he sits down next to his brother. He smiles then stands and kisses my cheek and we all continue to eat. He was such a sweet heart even as he grew up. Dan moved off my lap he was close in age to Mihrimah sultan. I just smiled and enjoy the sibling interaction.after lunch we all take our leave and return to our chambers or to class in the harem. The next day I was walking around and I see mahidveran talk to gulsha I wave to her then she continued on her way i wait awhile looking in on the harem, her maid talks to some of the girls then attacks them I know it's probably about what hurrem said the other day. I could see the poor woman's tears glistening she couldn't catch a break. After the commotion I turned to aya, " I smell trouble brewing, she will not let bygones be bygones there is trouble a foot" . " she look like she was ready to kill them all poor thing" aya said as we continued, " well it's not my problem anybody knows that if you go up against hurrem you're going to lose, as long as the trouble stays far away for me that's what counts" I say. She nods and we continue. " you've gone up against her and you haven't lost yet" aya says as we enter the chamber. " aye I haven't lost but I was an accident, there is never supposed to be three Sultana there is only meant to be today I was an accident and now look where we are two children later and possibly more to come" I say smiling. "Oh my word you weren't an accident it was fate " she says as I sit down. Suddenly the little sound of feet come running at me " mom " I hear as Dan climbs up the stairs and jumps into my arm. We all giggle he begins to tell me all about his day wish it until the night begins to change and I can signals it to Aya to bring dinner. "All right my love, you've told me everything you've done today I think it's time to eat before you get grumpy " I say to him smiling. Aya sets up the dinner and we eat happily. I tell him a bedtime story and then send him off to bed." Sweet dreams my darling no staying up late in asking Maya to tell you another story" I say as maya takes his hand. Maya winks to him and he smiles. "What are you going to do when he grows up, you're probably going to have many daughter-in-law's and many grandchildren" aya says. " he is still so young I do not want to think that and besides I would hope he has many children and maybe just one Sultana he's doesn't need a harem to be happy, it maybe the way he will be taught but I wouldn't mind only just one woman in his heart won't have mind games to deal with" I say she nods. "I'll get your night gown, you plan of reading tonight ? " she asks, " always thinking ahead. , yes I will I want to finish that book tonight,you all go on ahead to sleep I'll be fine " I say. She nods and smiles, she takes her leave and heads to bed I stand and get ready then lay on my sofa and begins to read. It gets really dark soon my candles going out wanna knock on my door wakes me up. A voice whispers to me "grab your cloak and meet me in the garden" it was male at first I couldn't distinguish it was but it was better to figure out food wise so I grab my clothes and my shoes and off I went. To get out to the garden I pass near the hammam. " evening hurrem good time for a bath have a nice time " I say as we pass each other " evening Sofia have fun where ever your going " she says as she enters the hammam. I enter the garden find figure stay in the middle of the greenery looking up at the moon. " is this your subtle way of asking me to come look at the moon with you" I ask as I approach it. " yes but not for very long you need rest and so do I" the voice says holding out it's hand, I take and smile as suleyman pulls me close and we look up at the moon. "How did you get away from the guards?" I ask. " snuck off the same way as you near the harem " he says holding my waist As we look up. ". Beautiful moon tonight so bright and clear and all the stars shining" I say. " yes but they will never outshine you my love "he says as he kisses the side of my head. We stand there for about 15 minutes then I turn and kiss him and lead him back inside. " off the bed with ya, you have a busy day tomorrow with government" I say he smiles then winks at me and I go to my room quietly and jump on my bed and fall fast alseep. Soon I hear a scream that would wake the dead. " what was that ?" Aya said running out of the room. " I don't know I'm going to go find out stay with the children " I say. " no sultana I'll go stay here "she says I nod. She hands me Ana and maya comes out confused, " make sure Dan stays alseep I don't know what's going on " she nods and goes back in side. Aya comes back soon " Gülnihal ,gülnihal hatun she was stabbed in Hurrems chamber, hurrem is scared and screaming what's worse is prince selim was in bed with her when she was stabbed " she says fearful, " oh god save us, lock up the doors now bar them now "I yell, Aya quickly does that and maya takes Ana from my arms. " no one goes in or out for the rest of the night they'll probably send someone to check on us soon I can't sleep now go to bed if you can" I say. A knock on the door some time later rendered me thoughtless I went to the door and asked "who was there" I heard daye say her name through the door. I unlocked it slowly " oh daye it's you " I said as I hugged her. " yes sultana " she said returning the hug " is everyone alright here?" she asked , "Yes everyone's all right the girls are sleeping As are the children, we heard what happened so I've kept the doors locked all night" I said. " I have assigned extra guards outside your room and if you wish to barricade the door as well if it makes you feel more comfortable, I'm glad your ok sultana, please rest, you will be very safe with the guards I promise you I will go in form Valide about you" she says. I nod and watch her leave and tell her guards to not fall alseep while watching the sultana. I shut the door and barricaded then put myself back to sleep. Next morning it was a bright day, The sun was beaming but the event the before was still on everybody's mind. I was the first stop I am barricade the door and found the guards they're still awake. I thanked them for their service and smiled kindly to them and gave them gold. " aya go get breakfast, Rasha go get info I want to know what the heck is going on" I say. I put my Face in my hands and just shake my head they say in life is crazy God they weren't wrong. Rasha returned after a while, we were eating breakfast when she came in." Hurrem slept in valide room with the children and now they're cleaning her chambers from top to bottom, Gülnihal hatun survive the night thankfully they think it'll be a while for her to heal but she will survive, Mahidevran sultan was called to valide room hatice sultan is there too apparently her maid was also sent to the healing room apparently she fell down some stairs but it doesn't look like it looks like she was beaten" she says. " they suspect her then, Mahidevran Is bold but not this bold, she knows that if she makes a wrong move she can lose everything I don't believe she would do this hopefully the day will get better" I say. I stand up and begin to brush my hair and look in the mirror. " you'll see what the week is like, this week will be very stressful and many" I say looking at them all then turned back to my hair.