THE UNFORTUNATE SULTANA | MAGNIFICENT CENTURY

CHAPTER 5

"I wish to spend some time in the city. I would like to bring myself some things from the market and to have free at least once to walk around the city," I begged Bayezid to agree with me that I could leave to the city for a bit. I was really exhausted from the fight with the Valide yesterday and really needed to have some peace far away from the palace.

"I am afraid if anything bad happens I will feel responsible, but anyways my opinion won't have any impact because you have to ask Murad to let you go outside," Bayezid said.

"Atike can do whatever she wants to, and I must ask for someone's allowance of my leaving," I said as I started to walk to Murad's chambers together with Bayezid who spend some time yesterday with him in the city.

"People are angry, we were in the city yesterday and I am really afraid for you. But when we speak about this, I must admit something to you," Bayezid said as we stood up on the corridor of the harem, as he checked twice if someone could hear what he was talking to me.

"I met a woman who has stolen my heart. She works in a tavern, and I will never forget her eyes," Bayezid said and at first moment it was cute to me how he has fallen in love at the first sight, but any kind of feelings that were inappropriate for him could only bring him something bad.

"Be careful, please. Don't repeat other people's mistakes," I said to him as we came in front of Murad's chambers.

"You go first, because later I go with Murad outside again so you will finish more quickly," he said. Silahtar just nodded at me and opened doors of Murad's chambers, and I once again looked at Silahtar not understanding how could the two of my sisters fall in love with this man.

"Fatma, welcome sister," Murad said as I bowed to him while in his chambers once again were Kemankes and Huseyin. They bowed to me, but stayed in the chambers as they obviously had some job to do with him.

"I don't want to bother you, but I have a request, if it would be possible," I told him with a smile, hoping he would let me. He nodded his head at me as he waited for me to say what I wanted.

"I would like to go out into the city, there is a woman who sews custom-made dresses, which cannot be ordered, but you have to go to her. I would like to go there, get away from the palace and take a break," I told him, but his smile faded from his face. Recently, the situation in the capital was not very good, and every outing of us Sultanas could be risky if someone recognized us.

*I can't let you go alone, someone must accompany you," Murad said protectively.

"My maids will go with me, if necessary my mother's agha can too," I said, but he was not satisfied with my answer as I expected.

"Since I have obligations with your brother and Kemankes today, Huseyin will be your escort who will look after you today," Murad said to which Huseyin bowed and I nodded my head. It's not exactly that I was the happiest with the decision that someone had to accompany me, because I wanted to take a break from the constant surveillance I was living with in the palace.

"My sister must not miss a hair from her head, Huseyin," Murad said sharply to one of his closest servants and best warriors.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will do everything to make sure your sister's departure is safe," Huseyin said.

"You won't go to the sewer?" Deli asked as the carriage left us in the city and I rather chose to go on place outside of the market, but on the coast next to the Bosphorus close to the smaller market where there were much less people.

"No, that was just an excuse," I said as I finally took a deep breath feeling free without anyone being behind my back and listening what I was speaking. I finally felt free from thinking that my only duty was helping my brother and protecting him, and in the other hand of making sure no one gets in the trouble.