THE SULTAN'S HEART| MAGNIFICENT CENTURY|

CHAPTER 049

"Here you go darling" I handed Osman a piece of candy. The boys were now sitting in a bed beside each other, Mustafa was on one end with Osman beside him and then Mehmed while Selim and Abdullah were already asleep because of their young age. We had moved to the throne's palace just before the boys were circumcised.

"Here Mehmed, I know you love these" I handed Mehmed a piece of candy too. He took it from me happily and popped it in his mouth. The doors opened and Hürrem stepped in with a smile on her face.

"Mother? Mother is here!" Mehmed explained excitedly. Hürrem chuckled and sat down on the other side of me on the bed by Mehmed's side while I was sitting on Mustafa's side. Hürrem pulled up Mihrimah to sit in front of her by her brother's side.

"My smart Sehzade, how are you?" She asked her son.

"I want to stand up, I'm too bored" Mehmed answered with a cute pout making me giggle, being with the children really lifted my spirits even when they weren't mine.

"Me too," Mustafa said. Hürrem smile at Mustafa. I pushed some of his hair back, it still shocked me how he was just a small seven years old boy when I first came to the harem and now he was almost a teenager.

"Everyone is expecting us. Only we are here" he said with a frown on his face.

"You want to join the party outside with the men?" I asked raising a teasing eyebrow. He nodded his head excitedly.

"They showed me around today. My mother was a bride today. She'll never part from my father" Mihrimah said adorably. I sighed sadly at the reminder while Hürrem laughed at her daughter. I noticed that Mustafa wasn't looking at any of us instead he was watching his mother sit sadly on her own on the couch.

"Here, you too Mihrimah" Hürrem handed Mehmed then Mihrimah a new kind of candy. She looked at me with a sad smile.

"I'm sorry," Hürrem said to me. I was shocked, to be honest, I was expecting our friendship to end and a rivalry to start but it seemed I was wrong.

"I'm happy for you, it just stings a little," I said back. She held her hand out to me and I took it. She patted out intertwined hands with her second hand and I noticed with the side of my eye Mahidevran glaring at our hands. She got up and walked over to the bed.

"My Mustafa, it is time to go to your chamber," Mahidevran said ignoring Hürrem and my presence entirely.

"Gülsah, prepare it" she ordered her loyal maid. "Right now sultanim" Gülsah bowed before leaving the chamber.

"Mother please, I'm alone in my chamber. I want to stay here with my siblings" Mustafa protested. Osman giggle and wrapped his arms around Mustafa in a hug which Mustafa returned with a soft smile. The poor boy had a soft heart but he was given the worst mother ever.

"No my Mustafa, as you know you are the crown prince, you need to act accordingly to the rules. May Allah grants him a long life, after his majesty, the throne will be vouchsafed to you if Allah willed" she said snobbishly raising her head high. I rolled my eyes at her arrogance.

"Don't fill the child's head with such things" Hürrem said. Mahidevran looked at her for the first time since the announcement with an annoyed look on her face.

"Am I supposed to ask for your permission?" Mahidevran asked sarcastically. Hürrem took a deep breath and turned to the other woman. I held the bowl tightly wanting nothing but to smash it again Mahidevran's head but this was not my fight, it's her who's pushing the childish further away from each other.

"Mahidevran behave yourself, because you are talking to the legal wives of the Sultan Suleiman" Hürrem fired back looking at me. I smirked at Mahidevran when her eyes trailed to me.