Eight years have passed since Ahmed gave me the duty to rule the Harem. Eight years I have been rulling Harem and everyone was fine with my duty, except Mahfiruz and Gulbahar who did whatever was needed to sabotage me. But they couldn't do it, because Ahmed loved me too much to believe them.

"Mommy, when will father return with our brothers?" my youngest daughter Saliha asked me.

Excatly four years ago, I gave birth to beautiful triplets. My three beautiful Sultanas Saliha, Ismihan and Handan.

"My beautiful girls, your father and your brothers will arrive at any moment. Your sisters will also come very soon. Let's go to your father's chambers to meet them." I said to them as we were all really excited to meet Ahmed which went with his sons in Edirne for two weeks. He learned them about hunting there.

I took my triplets together with me and we went to Ahmed's chambers. Kalika and Aybige came to me together with my twins Sirin and Ibrahim who were six years old.

Me together with my five children came inside Ahmed's chambers where he awaited for us.

He was with Osman, Mehmed, Murad and Bayezid. When I came inside my lion Kasim and my daughter Gevherhan ran towards me to hug me.

"They missed their mother a lot." Ahmed said and smiled while I hugged Gevherhan and Kasim. All my children bowed to me and only Osman looked at me weird. Even though he wasn't my son and he was son of my enemy, I never had against him. But what scared me was that he always was in fight with Mehmed.

" I missed them a lot, and you too Ahmed." I said and smiled to them.

" Mother, it was so interesting to us. Father learned us about everything." Bayezid said as he ran to hug me next.

" Your siblings here missed you a lot." I said and my beautiful triplets went to hug their father who they missed a lot.

" Sirin, Ibrahim, come!" my eldest son Mehmed said and hugged his younger sister and brother.

" Brother Osman! I missed you!" Sirin ran towards Osman and hugged him because she loved him a lot, and he loved her. Mahfiruz just sighed at Sirin calling him brother.

" Where's Atike?" Ahmed asked as here were all children, except Atike. At that moment Gülbahar came inside with ten years old girl Atike who grew into beautiful girl.

"My Osman, Mehmed, Gevherhan, Murad, Kasim, Bayezid, Atike, Sirin, Ibrahim, Handan, Ismihan, Saliha. I am so happy when I have you all my children here next to me." Ahmed said and he couldn’t hide his happiness anymore.

All twelve of his children were here, and out of these twelve ten were mine. Even though I wasn't Osman and Atike's mother I still loved them.

" Let's have dinner together." Ahmed said and showed us all to big dining table. We all sat there. I sat next to Ahmed which made Mahfiruz and Gulbahar silently commenting about me.

" I would like to show you someone." Ahmed said and ordered his servants to open the doors. Man in his early 20s came inside the chambers.

" This is my brother, Şehzade Mustafa." Ahmed said and showed Mustafa to sit with us on the table. He was followed by his sister Dilruba and his mother Halime.

Mustafa seemed so lost, and it was obvious why he was. He was locked in Kafes for nine years. He had no contact with outside world. When Ahmed gave this decision, he probably didn't have idea how much this would affect him.

" Hunkarim, I am so happy to see you after so many years." Mustafa said and smiled to Ahmed.

" Uncle Mustafa, I am so happy you are here. I wanted to meet you." Osman said and smiled to him.

"Mustafa, those are your nephews and nieces. This is Osman, my eldest son. He is Mahfiruz's son." Ahmed said and Mahfiruz proudly smiled to her son.

" This is my son Mehmed, and this is his twin sister Gevherhan. This is Murad, those are my twins Kasim and Bayezid, another pair of twins are Sirin and Ibrahim. And my youngest triplets Handan, Ismihan and Saliha. They are all Mahnaz's children." Ahmed said and smiled to me.

I smiled to Mustafa as I remembered him when he was a young boy which only wanted to play around the Palace. I helped Halime many times to meet him and that's why we kept in good contact.

" I remember you, Mahnaz Sultan. You always played with me when I was young. I am so happy you gave so much children to my brother." Mustafa smiled to me back.

"And this is my daughter Atike, her mother is Gulbahar." Ahmed said and Gulbahar smiled to Mustafa.

"Father, I wanted to ask you for a thing." Osman said seriously. I wondered what was now. Ahmed nodded with his head to allow him.

" I want to go to Sanjak. I don't want to be here in Palace here anymore. My mother is never happy in this Palace, she doesn't even have position she deserves. Everything she deserves you give to another woman." Osman said and looked at me with hate in his eyes.

How could Mahfiruz put so much hate in her son to whom I never meant any bad thing to happen.

" What should that mean, Osman?" Ahmed asked him and raised his eyebrows.

" You gave all the duty to Mahnaz Sultana. You want us all to respect her as she is Valide Sultana not just a slave concubine. My mother deserved some duties, but no, you gave everything to Mahnaz." Osman said and looked at me even more angry this time.

"Osman, don't talk like this about my mother. She has done nothing wrong. You can't call her like this." Mehmed said to him to defend me. I just looked at Mehmed to notice him not to mix up into those things, because I didn't want Ahmed's anger on him.

"So you want to say that you are not happy with my decision?" Ahmed asked him seriously.

" Excatly." Osman said proudly.

" Osman, don't forgot who you talk about. Mahnaz is mother of my ten children. She is love of my life. I won't ever allow you to talk like this about her once again." Ahmed said angrily and stood up.

We all stood up as we should after him. I never thought Ahmed would defend me like this in front of his own son.

" And my mother means nothing to you? This is what you want to tell?" Osman yelled on Ahmed. I couldn’t believe he is acting like this.

" Know your place, Osman." Ahmed yelled on him, and never before I could see him yelling on one of his children.

" I promise you one day when I come to the throne that I will treat all my women equally as they should have been treated. Not like you do, ignore mother of your heir to the throne because of venetian slave." Osman yelled on him and his words really hurted me in my heart.

Ahmed looked at him with distrust. He walked closer to him and stood. At one moment, he slapped Osman across his face so hard that I could feel how hard pain this must be.

" You should never ever again talk about Sultanate while I am alive, and I will never ever allow you to talk like this about Mahnaz. Never. You will learn how to respect others, because if you would have this behaviour, your Sultanate wouldn't last long." Ahmed said angrily and left the chambers.