Roksna bit her lips as she came face to face with Lady Miriam. She hoped the woman hadn’t realized what had happened between the sultan and her. She didn’t need to add jealousy to the woman’s reason for hating her. Her eyes widened as she saw Lady Miriam walk toward her with a menacing look. Roksna took a step backward for each step Lady Miriam took until her back hit furniture in the room. Whendy Miriam got to where she was, she pped Roksna hard on her face. Removing the hijab on Roksna’s head, Miriam wrapped it around her neck, choking her with it. Roksna pped the woman’s hand, but she refused to let go. It wasn’t until Roksna was losing consciousness that the woman released her.
“I’ll make sure you regret making the sultan mad this morning.” Lady Miriam told Roksna. “Is there anyone out there?” The woman called out.
A man rushed in immediately. Roksna couldn’t believe her ears when Lady Miriam ordered the man to tie her to a chair. Before Roksna could find her voice back to protest about such treatment, the man was already tying the knots of the rope holding her down. She was thinking about what thedy had in mind for tying her when Roksna saw Lady Miriaming back with a razor de and a te of chili pepper. Roksna pushed at the rope holding her down, praying thedy wasn’t thinking what she thought she was thinking of doing.
Lady Miriam’s face lit up cruelly when she saw Roksna struggling against the rope. She had felt like banging the door open when she heard Sultan Jamal asking Roksna to be his new mistress. No one had been happier than she was the moment the sultan had given her an order to be cruel to the ve. When she got to where Roksna was tied, she smiled and lifted the de for Roksna to see.
Roksna refused to cry out and give Lady Miriam the satisfaction she wanted as the woman shed her arm open with the de. Roksna bit her lips to prevent the screams froming or the tears from falling as six more cuts were made to her arms and thighs. Roksna watched as Lady Miriam tilted the chili powder te to one of the cuts she had just gotten and poured the pepper to the surface. The scream she had been trying to hold released itself but that didn’t stop the cruel woman. If anything, thedy’s eyes lit up as she poured more pepper into the other wounds. Roksna felt herself lose consciousness as darkness took over her.
Roksna felt something being sshed on her face and woke up. She saw Lady Miriam standing in front of her and the memories came back. She didn’t know for how long she was out, but she knew it must have been a while since the mistress was wearing a new outfit and loud jewelry. Roksna lifted her arm and was surprised to see it was free. She looked for the rope that had held her down when the sultan’s mistress had practiced her cruelty but couldn’t find any.
She realized that she was free. Not just free but alone with Lady Miriam. She could take the chance and kill the woman right now and no one would find out. But knowing the cunning woman, Roksna knew the woman was probably alone with her to set her up. She let herself calm down, not wanting to fall into Miriam’s evil n. She would have to think of another way to break free from the woman other than killing her.
“ve, go to the kitchen and get me lunch.” Lady Miriam ordered Roksna.
Lunch? Had she really been unconscious for so long? And the evil woman had let her be? She must have used those hours to deck up herself. Roksna stood up from the chair she was in and walked away from thedy.
“Don’t you want to get revenge? This is your opportunity. It is just you and I here.” Lady Miriam’s words stopped her.
Roksna shook her head slightly to herself. Her instinct had been right, the woman had something nned and Roksna knew it can’t be good. The earlier she disappeared from her presence, the better it would be for her. For all she knew, the woman could make herself fall and put the lie on Roksna.
“No, mydy. I’ll go get your lunch right away.” She answered and went out of the house.
She was halfway through her journey when she realized that she didn’t know the way to the kitchen. She looked around for who to ask and saw a maning towards her. She met him halfway and spoke.
“Assm ikum.” She greeted him.
“Wa ikum Assm.” The man replied.
“Could you please show me the way to the kitchen?” She asked the man.
“You don’t remember me?” The man asked her.
Roksna looked at the man but couldn’t remember where they had met before. She negatively shook her head to tell him no.This content provided by N(o)velDrama].[Org.
“I am one of those you saved that day when you arrived. The second inmand.” The man exined.
Roksna’s face lit up as recognition set in.
“I’m d to see you are okay.” She told the man.
“I wouldn’t be if it wasn’t for you. Thank you. But what happened to you?” The man asked, looking at her.
At that question, Roksna remembered the errand Lady Miriam sent her and the danger in dying to carry out the order.
“While I would love to stay and talk to you, I need to get to the kitchen now. Do you think you can point me in the right direction?” She asked the man.
The man directed her. After promising to chat with him some other times, Roksna went in the direction of the kitchen. She was surprised to see that the kitchen was big, with servants moving and working all around. Trays of food were set on a long table in a corner. A woman was controlling the servants and Roksna thought she might be the head cook. Roksna walked up to her to get Lady Miriam’s lunch.
“Excuse me. Lady Miriam asked me to get her lunch.” She told the woman.
Roksna heard a gasp from someone behind her and turned to see Seyiddah looking at her like she was a gue.
“Laih. What happened to you?” Seyiddah asked.
“It’s a long story. I have to get Lady Miriam’s lunch to her,” Roksna told her friend.
“You work for Lady Miriam? Then you better get her lunch there now.” The woman Roksna assumed as the head cook told her. She walked to the table and gave Roksna a tray.
Roksna smiled her thanks and rushed back to the house. She was about to open the door when she heard voices from inside.