Jamal opened his eyes from sleep and stretched, his folded hands hitting the headboard of the bed he laid upon. He heard a low growl beside him and looked to see who it was. A smile appeared on his face when he saw Roksolana sleeping peacefully beside him. He remembered how they had made love yesterday and how he had bared his heart to her and how she hadn't judged him about any of the things he had opened up to her about. He moved his hand to her hair and began to play with it. Right at that moment, all he was grateful for was how she had finally accepted him just the way that he was. He got up a little and kissed her on the lips. When she reciprocated his affection, he knew that she wasn't sleeping anymore and he smiled. To prove his point, he placed his finger on her abdomen and began to rub the navel area. She moaned into his mouth and Jamal nearly laughed out loud at her childishness.

Next? Roksolana thought. She was right about Lady Miriam since she had just heard about what she was doing next. "We kill the king. This time, he won't be able to escape since I already got everything into place." The strange yet familiar voice Roksolana always heard from Lady Miriam's room responded. "Are you sure it will work this time?" Lady Miriam's weak voice said to her lover. "Very sure. The Sultan would be breathing his last before a week from now," the man answered. Roksolana got angry. At first, she wanted to open the door and confront the two lovers but she decided against it instantly. She knew that her confrontation would only stop the attack temporarily and Jamal's life would still be in danger. If she

Jamal stretched on his bed to relax his strained muscles and body. After Roksolana had left him and Aabdeen in the morning to discuss, Aabdeen had come clean with him and told him about who he truly was and why he had done everything he did. Of course, Jamal had been very furious with the other man and had even sent him away from his sight but he could understand the other Sultan  now that he was alone. The man had just wanted to protect his people and everything else in his sultanate. But it still hurt him that the man had lied to him. During the period when he had met the man he thought was simply a physician, Jamal had grown fond of the man to the extent that he thinks of him as a friend instead of the mere physician that the man was supposed to be. So, finding out that the man had lied made him feel a little betrayed. Yet, Jamal found out that his thought was not centered on punishin

Roksolana woke up feeling disoriented. When she looked at the room where she was, she couldn't remember where she was or how she had gotten to the place. She tried to look around some more to study her surroundings but her head felt like ten building blocks had been placed on it. When she tried to touch the place that hurt, she saw that she was tied to a chair and she winced. She whipped her head slightly to remember exactly how she had gotten into the predicament she was in but nothing appeared in her brain or even tried to appear. She was blank like she had suffered a memory loss. She was still trying not to panic while trying to remember how she got to being tied to a chair in what seemed like a half-burnt room with all the blackness that even years of abandonment has not been able to erase away completely. One thing she knew was the fact that even though she couldn't remember how she got

As Jamal kept running with an unconscious Roksolana in his arms, he kept praying to Allah that she had merely fainted because of either fright or how she had witnessed the death of her captor and not because Aamil had done something wrong to her before his arrival at the scene. When he heard Roksolana whimpering a little as he kept running, he slowed down in his run.He still blamed himself for the torture she went through. If he had noticed that she was missing all those times that she had been gone, then he would have looked for her everywhere. If he had listened to her and reasons about why she kept asking those weird questions about Sodeeq, then he would have guessed that something was fishy somewhere. If he had searched for her a little harder all through the night, then he might have been able to find her a lot sooner than he did.And to think that he wanted to turn away from the building because he had been suspecting the wrong person makes him want to s