Sultan Mahmoud was the most lustful sultan the Othman empire has ever known since it rose from nothing to the strong dynasty it is now. He was a womanizer and the whole dynasty knew that but they didn't care as long as he was leaving for campaigns t...
"You look excited," Daphne said earning my attention from the window I was watching the road from. She sat opposite me with Ahmed Cem in her lap playing with his wooden horse happily.
"How could I not be, I'll be seeing my Mahmoud after so long," I said excitedly making her look at Zeynep who sat beside her, and giggle together. I looked back outside feeling like I could fly from happiness when suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my stomach making me double over in pain and a pained groan left my lips.
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"Sultanim" Zeynep moved to beside me worry all over her face as she helped me lean back before kneeling down to see what's wrong, since her grandmother was a midwife she knew what to do.
"She's gonna have the baby," She said in a panicked voice looking up at Daphne. Daphne knocked on the wall behind her to get the attention of the rider.
"Go faster, our sultana has gone into labor" She yelled. Seconds later the carriage jerked into a faster pace and drove past the other carriages with the Valide sultan and Yenisah sultan. The Valide's maid looked out at us like we were mad since we weren't allowed to go before them.
"The sultana has gone into labor" Zeynep yelled from the window. When we reached the castle my beloved was in the two girls helped me down.
"Take care of her majesty, I will stay with the prince" Daphne ordered one of the maids that were with us in a carriage that arrived earlier than us so they could help the remaining maids prepare. The two girls helped me into the harem and up to my room that I've missed so much but I didn't have any time to admire my room as more pain hit me.
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"Breath sultana" The maid Daphne handed me to said pushing my hair back and took off my crown and placed it on a coffee table beside the bed and held my hand to squeeze.
"What's your name?" I asked in between contractions. I let out a scream as pain hit me all over my body.
"Afife sultanim," She said biting her lip as I squeezed her hand tightly. She didn't look over sixteen but she was wiser than she looked.
"If I make it through I will make sure you'll be my child's Kalfa and take care of him or her," I said panting hard as the midwives finally arrived and immediately went to work pushing my legs up and covering my legs with a blanket.
"Mahmoud got what he wanted, our child will be born in the throne's castle," I said turning to Zeynep who nodded her head with a soft smile. I let out another scream tightening my hand on Afife's poor hand and the other around the sheets.
"Come on Sultana, you're almost there," The midwife said looking up at me for a second before going back under the blanket. I took a deep breath before pushing as hard as I could feeling my muscles burning from how much I strained them.
"There," She said popping back up with a wailing baby in her arms. I leaned back against the pillows feeling relief course through my body.
"What did she have?" Zeynep asked from beside me making me perk back up and look at the midwife as she cut the cord that connected me to my son or daughter before they wrapped him or her in a white blanket and took him or her to clean him or her and check him or her up which broke my heart since I wanted to him or her.
"A son, our sultana gave us another son," She said with glee as she washed her hands. I let the maids help me wash and clean before they helped me back into a clean bed, I felt bad that the maids prepared my bed then I ruined it by giving birth and now they had to change it again.
"Thank Allah you're well, Sultanim," Daphne said walking over with Ahmed Cem in her arms. I smiled at her and nodded as my thanks.
"Put him to bed, he must be exhausted" She bowed and left to the extra room in my wing. I looked at the door as it opened and Diana Kalfa walked in with the baby in her arms flailing his arms around, she handed him to me. I looked down at admired his brown hair just like his father and blue eyes like both of ours.
"My angel" I whispered leaning down and kissed his forehead as he settled down and started to fall asleep like he knew he was in the arms of his mother that loved him more than life its self.
I looked up as the doors opened again and the Valide walked in first followed by her three daughters that were here since her daughter Gevherhan was married to the governor of Amasya, I have never seen her or met her but I heard she was really nice but she could turn into the devil when she wants.
"Forgive me, sultana, I can't stand up" I bowed my head which she waved off with a huge smile on her face. The doors opened again and Leyla stepped in looking better than the last time I saw her after her son's funeral, she may not be a mother of a son anymore but she was still very important. Hatice stepped in behind her with a grim look on her face and she glared at me when she saw me with my son in my arms and I returned her glare with a smirk.
The doors opened for the third time and HE stepped in, my Mahmoud looked better than ever as he walked in with a huge grin on his face. He stopped beside my bed and looked down at me with a soft look on his face.
"Are you alright?" He asked. I almost pulled him down into a kiss at the mere sound of his voice, I've missed it so much.
"Now that you're here by my side, I've never been better" I answered with a grin on my face which he returned with one of his own. Daphne walked in with Ahmed Cem so he would be here for his brother's naming. Zeynep covered my hair with a shawl and stood to the side.
"Your name will be Suleiman"
"Your name will be Suleiman"
"Your name will be Suleiman"
I smiled as he looked at me when he finished naming our son, I watched as Leyla walked over first which shocked me. She placed a broch on his white blanket with the words of Allah carved on it.
"May Allah give him a long life" She said looking gloomy at the birth of a new son and I'm sure she's still not over her son's death not like any mother would.
"Thank you" He nodded at her. She stepped back to her place beside a glaring Hatice, she looked like she could explode from anger but she did nothing and didn't bring a gift.
"Here darling" Mahmoud handed me, Suleiman after everyone left us alone in the room. I took my darling boy in my arms and held him close to me like the precious jewel he was.
"I've missed you," He said sitting down on the bed beside me. I smiled up at him with glee in my eyes, I was back with my beloved and we had two sons now.
