" When I saw you for the first time, I knew I won't forget about you easily. And I was right, in those years there was no day or night I haven't thought of you. You are the one who lights my life up, and I would be lost without you."
"Kalika, have you found the perfect co concubine for my lion Murad?" I asked my chief of harem treasury Kalika after I did all my work papers. Since I was Valide Sultana I had a lot of job in my hands and the power was so big. Sometimes I was afraid if I would do something bad and people would revolt against my rule or rule of my son Murad, that's why I wanted Murad to take power into his hands what sooner the better it would be.
" Sultana, I have found many concubines, but Sultan Murad doesn't want any of them. He always refuses them and call concubine he chosed alone, her name is Ayşe," Kalika said to me which made me interested who that concubine was. I didn't want a woman who wasn't loyal to me close to my son because he was still young and any bad influence on him could make the things only bad.
" Call Ayse Hatun to me," I ordered her.
"Valide Sultanim," young girl with long curly brunette hair said as she came inside my chambers and bowed to me. On my first impression, she was very shy girl.
"So you are girl my son is crazy about?" I asked her and saw she had a little smile on her face only at the mention of my son Murad.
"I guess I am," she said still looking down at the floor being embarassed of looking at me.
"As all other girls in this palace, I guess your wish is to make my son happy and one day rule this Palace?" I asked her as I needed to know her real intentions. Many years ago I was a concubine in this Harem the same way she was.
"My biggest wish is to be close to our Sultan and satisfy him, and to serve you Sultana," she said.
"I will help you to achieve your dreams, but that will be possible only if you will listen to me and be loyal to me," I told her knowing that I need to have my concubines next to my son.
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"I swear to you Sultana with my life that I will be loyal to our Sultan and to you, whatever is your wish I will do it," Ayse said and I just nodded Kalika to escort her from my chambers.
"What do you think Sultana?" Kalika asked me with such an interest after I saw Ayse.
"Nothing special, I don't think she is someone who Murad will be interested for too long," I said as I haven't seen the fire in the eyes of this girl. The fire I had in my eyes many years ago when I arrived.
"Sultana, have you found suitable husbands for your other daughters?" Haci asked me about the topic I wanted to get done, but at the same time I haven't decided yet because what was most important to me was happiness of my daughters.
"Only Sirin will marry, triplets are still young and I don't want them to go away from us yet. They should enjoy their peaceful life here, as I couldn't have in my childhood," I said as throwback from my childhood came into my head. As young girl I was captured by barbars and sold to Istanbul slavery market where Palace men bought me as a gift to Sultan Ahmed. No one knows how much I suffered but at the end I got the opportunity to live my life with a man I loved most and become a mother of his ten beautiful children, now I am mother to one angel Mehmed and nine beautiful and smart children.
