Rose was just a normal girl living her life with her loving family as any normal person would, that is until the barbarians attack her village and kidnap her and sold her to the Othman's.
Sultan Ahmed has just been ascended to the Othman throne jus...
"Who sent you?" I heard someone yell angrily before a slapping sound echoed around the place.
"Open the doors" I ordered my sister who nodded and ran ahead of me to inform the guards to open the doors and let me into the prison cell which held the two traitors.
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I walked in to see them both laying on the ground beaten up and blood glaring at the guard who was interrogating them before I came in.
"Leave us" I ordered. They were about to protest but I held my hand stopping them which worked.
"As you wish sultana," Malin said leaving the cell and closing the door behind her.
"What made you do it?" I asked looking down at them but before they could say anything I continued.
"What made you kill two innocent souls and separate them from their mother and siblings? What possible could they promise you for you to lose your Conscience and kill a human, a life given from God?" I asked making sure to keep my tears at bay.
"They threatened us," the blonde girl said that was supposed to be Mehmed's chief maid.
"Who?" I asked taking a step closer to her. I was afraid she would say it and I would hear it. I wanted to know who were the real murderers of my sons.
"The temple's knights" I raised my eyebrows at the weird name.
"They're a group of Christians who are trying to take down the Othman empire," the brown-haired girl said. She spent only one night with Osman and she was able to get him sick.
"Why would the Christians try to end us after Ahmed made a deal with them?" I asked glaring at them not believing a word they said.
"They don't know. This group thinks they're doing the Christian world a favor" said the blonde one. I knew that the blonde one was called Esme and the brunette was called Shafak.
"And what did they threaten you two with to do this?" I asked looking them straight in the eye. Both of them looked down in shame unable to look me in the eye, they couldn't look in the eyes of the mother who's children they killed.
"They threatened to kill my sister," the blonde one said looking down at her nails.
"They threatened my father," the brunette said grimacing a little when she met my glare.
The doors burst open and Karla burst in panting and sweaty as if she ran as fast as she can over to the cellar.
"Sultana Shahrazad is giving birth" she panted. I smiled knowing something good would be happening soon. I turned back to the girls.
"I will take care of your families but you two must die for treason," I said making the brunette burst out crying.
"You can't kill me" I looked at the blonde expecting her to have a challenging look on buy she didn't.
"I'm pregnant from the late prince" tears build up in my eyes but pushed them back. There's a possibility that Mehmed will have a child into this world.
"Send her my personal doctor to see if she's lying" I ordered Karla who nodded and left before me.
"If you were lying I'll make sure to kill you myself" I threatened her before leaving and running to my daughter's side.
I saw her husband at the door of the room. When he saw me he bowed and looked at me anxiously.
"Everything will be just fine. I went through the same thing in my first birth" I said patting his arm feeling his muscles relax a little.
I walked in to see her on her bed with the midwife checking up on her. I sat down beside her and took her hand in between mine letting her squeeze it as much as she can.
"How did you do it?" She asked looking at me with teary eyes.
"I thought of the baby I will be holding in my arms" I explained. She took a deep breath before pushing as hard as she can let out a scream.
"Everything will be just fine princess" I whispered to her as she pushed as hard as she can finally relaxing as a screaming sound filled the room.
"It's a boy" I patted her hair back and kissed her hand.
"You did great my lovely" she smiled at the nickname she shared with all of her siblings but it was originally only for her. It was the first word she said and I've been calling her that ever since and I eventually started calling all of my children my lovelies.
Her husband burst in and sat on her other side looking down at the baby in her arms smiling brightly. I saw the was he looked at her even though she as sweaty and her hair was a mess but he still looked at her like she was the most precious thing in the world.
"Call the sultan and the princes and sultanas for the naming" I ordered Malin who bowed and ran out to get everyone.
In no time I was standing beside the bed with Murad, Orhan, Kasim, Beyazid, and Ibrahim standing beside me while Fatma, Ayse, Zahra, Handan, Kaia, Gevehran, and Atike stood on the other side.
I may have had twelve children but I raised Fatma. Ayse and am raising Atike who was in between Fatma's arms.
"Your name will be Ahmed" I smiled brightly as my son in law named his son after my beloved husband.
"He would've been really proud if he had been with us," I said smiling brightly for the very first time since the death of my lovelies. This baby will bring joy to the family again and hopefully in no time we will be back to normal.
We may love them and they may have left us but we will never forget them or ever stop loving them. Life will go on and we need to move on. I learned that the hard way when I was taken from my family a long time ago, over twenty years ago.
