10th Chapter

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"Handan, are you normal? Iskender? You can't marry with that traitor." my Valide yelled on me as I met with her in Old Palace.

" Valide, this is all Esmahan's fault. She asked Sultan to marry Kapudan Osman. I asked him too, but it was too late." I said as I met with Valide and Ali Suleyman.

" How could you be late with this? This way we will never be able to revenge your brother. Never." my mother yelled on me as she was really disappointed but she didn't even know how hard this for me.

" You will get rid of Iskender. I don't want you close to him. That marriage won't happen." Valide yelled on me once again not giving me ability even to say my opinion.

" Valide, I don't believe he killed Osman. He saved me from death. He didn't want to kill me by Mahfiruz's orders. I don't believe he did that." I said to her because Iskender really wasn't a bad man and I really liked his behaviour towards me.

" Maybe you started liking him that's why you act like this." my mother said showing me her disappointment in this. Maybe I actually did but I would never tell this thing to her.

"Valide, stop." I turned my head to her as she always surprised me with her words, but she was my mother and she knew really well how to read me and what's on my mind.

"Sultana is right, there is no proof Iskender Paşa killed Şehzade Osman. Also he is promoted as Grand Vizier now, it wouldn't be easy to get rid of him anymore, and I think we don’t need him as an enemy." Ali Suleyman said and my mother became even more nervous because of his words.

" I am sure he done it. You are just trying to make him good as Handan does, but don't you know that if Iskender finds out you are alive Ali Suleyman he would be the first one to get you to Mehmed?" Valide said trying to get Ali Suleyman by her side.

" You two will get rid of him. Ali Suleyman, you will attack him and kill him. I don't want to see him alive even more for a day, and especially not as my daughter's husband. I don't want a traitor to be my son-in-law." Valide yelled angrily on us.

" Valide, stop it. No one will do anything bad to him. Iskender doesn't deserve this. He has done nothing wrong to us." I said as I was shocked by her decision.

" Handan, you can't act like this towards your mother. You will listen to me." Valide yelled on me and I couldn't believe what is she turning out to be. My mother was never like this and I couldn't admit that this is her real behaviour.

" If you dare to do anything bad to him, I will alone myself tell to Sultan that you are involved in this. He is my fiancee now and you can't change it." I said to her and left the Old Palace.

Iskender waited for me with a carriage in front of Old Palace and when I looked at him I questioned myself one more time if I really feel something towards him. Because I really don't want anything bad to happen to him.

He opened to me doors of the carriage and sat at the opposite side of me. Conversation with my mother made me really nervous and he obviously realised it.

" Is everything fine, Sultana?" Iskender asked me as he brought me back to Earth from my thoughts.

" Everything is fine, I am just tired now." I said to him trying not to make him suspicious about me.

" You are really close with your mother?" Iskender asked me with a smile.

" I am. My mother is the most important person in my life."  I said to him, because no matter what happened today she was my mother. He just smiled to me but I saw he is really sad.

" I miss my mother also. I haven't seen her since I was 11. I dont know if she is even alive now. " he said in very sad tone and I felt really sorry for him.

" Maybe you could try to write and send letters to your family?" I asked him with emphaty. I was really sad of his story. He had something special in himself that made me like him really quickly. He just looked at me and smiled with a dose of sadness.

" I dont remember where excatly my village was. I was very young. My family probabbly thinks I'm dead." he said and looked at the ground sadly. I couldn’t look at him being so sad and I took his hand into mines.

" I will help you find your family." I tried to comfort him. I felt really sad for him. I wanted for him to be happy.

When I was next to him I forgot about power, I just felt happy because I wanted love with him, nothing else. I really wanted to be loved by someone.

" I never thought you are like this Sultana. Everyone else said you are like your mother, arrogant and ambitious. I thought that at first time I met you too." he said and I just smiled to him.

"People think I'm enemy of our Sultan because he killed my brother. But Mehmed is also my brother. My blood. I love him so much. I dont know why people think like that." I said sadly, even though I was lying. I wanted Iskender to trust me because he is going to be my husband.

" Valide Sultan Mahfiruz always talked only bad about you. She always warned us that you and your mother will do anything to sabotage Sultan Mehmed." he said.

"I know that. She dislikes me because I always stood up with my mother. She always behaved bad to my mother after death of my brother, when my mother was really weak." I said sadly.

" I met your brother. He seemed like a good man in heart, but he did a lot of bad things, you know?" he said to me calmly.

" I know everything, but he is my brother. He grew up with me. He always protected me when nobody did. He was only person that tried to make me happy and he was always here with me. No matter how bad things he did, he didn't deserve to be killed by janissaries." I said and started crying. I remembered my brother which I loved really much. On the day he died, I promised myself. I will revenge him at any cost.

" I dont want to see you crying Sultana. You are beautiful when you smile. I will be here for you. I won't let anyone make you cry anymore." he said to me and took my hand strongly into his.

I felt really safe next to Iskender like I have never felt safe around anyone else. I don't know how the relationship between us changed so quickly, but the thing I knew was that I will defend him from my mother.

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