I feel my cheeks burning as my eyes widen like saucers. Available and by your side? Wake me up, I'm dreaming. A man like Arturo Montiel would never say that to a girl like me... Except he just said it, even if he means work, I feel... important in his life. -And I've been thinking, I know it's not much, but there's a room here that you can use as an office. He leaves his desk and walks past me, past me to the filing cabinet door. -Arthur, that's a storage room," I point out worriedly. -I know, but it will be temporary, until we can reorganize the structure of the building and place you closer to me. He returns to my place and takes me by the hands... Then I forget the reason why I came here or why I would refuse to move my office. Being closer to him... it doesn't sound bad at all. Maybe it's not so bad to have a small office, after all I don't need too much space, plus it has a window so I won't be completely enclosed. -Do you accept my proposal? -Okay," I answer without thinki

I follow him with a firm step, he enters the house, which has two floors, the bottom floor is merely a storage room with some gardening stuff. And upstairs is where the kitchen and bedrooms are. He slams the door in my face, but I take a deep breath and open it again."I want to leave this house," I demand as he calmly sits down at the kitchen table."And where do you suggest I take you Melek? To your grandfather? Who is looking for you to kill you. Or perhaps with your father? A lying man who's done a shitty job protecting you from his own father.""I don't want you to take me to either of them. I need Esat, my cousin, he's the only one capable of helping me.""The only one capable? And what do you think I'm doing right now?""You've got me locked in a tower, that's what you're doing. You're not protecting me, you never could, because it was you who put me in this situation in the first place. Now, I'm asking you to let me go.""Melek, this discussion is starting to become repetitive

Hazar ErdoğanI look at my daughter's wedding photos, of my little girl, as her mother destroys them behind me. Since Esat took Melek away, my poor wife hasn't been able to rest. Her maternal instinct tells her to keep fighting for her daughter, but we don't even know where to look. It's been a week and we have no idea where Melek is.I've been trying to keep track of Habbab, but it's been complicated. The first time, he realized he was being followed and managed to lose track of the men I sent after him. The second time I had to hide myself, from my father's men, because for nothing in the world can he know where his granddaughter is, I know what he would do. He would kill her, so I have to find a way to save her from the clutches of her husband and also from those of her grandfather, my own progenitor."Senay, calm down, I promise I will rescue our daughter.""It's been a week, Hazar. A week since your father took my daughter and hit her in an horrible way, and then sent her to die.

"Habbab? Is that you?" I breathe a sigh of relief when I realize that the one who has discovered us is Melek's little sister. That means we have a good chance of getting out of here safe and sound."Gul, thank you, God it's you," I say as I walk over to her and crouch down to be at her level. "What are you doing awake, you little minx? You should be in bed.""I can't sleep, ever since Esat took my sister, I haven't been able to rest peacefully, do you know where she is?""Your sister is safe and sound, in a fortress I took her to myself."The girl's face immediately lights up, just like Melek, Gul, her sister, loves stories of heroes in shining armor, epic battles, and eternal love. I guess growing up in a home where everything has the same shade of gray and black, you try to find your own refuge. A place to dream and forget about real life.It's more than obvious that Gul loves stories of princesses and magic, right now he's wearing pink pajamas with a unicorn on his chest. I have to

"If you want my forgiveness, then turn back the clock, don't abandon me the day after the wedding and when the marriage was already more than consummated. You knew what you were doing and what would come upon me for what you did; yet all those beautiful memories you tell me to keep in mind for what I bestowed upon you something that is impossible for me to give, mattered little to you at the moment of causing me such great pain and despair that I knew well that death was the only thing left for me to do."She kneels on the bed, seeking to superimpose me in height, to feel greater than me, her captor."You wouldn't even allow me to die, to cleanse my honor under my own rules, and I ended up being displayed in the square while everyone spoke against me. No Habbab Arslan, what you feel right now is nothing compared to what I felt that damn day. I felt like I was touching the sky that day and what you did was to cut my wings, leaving me with bloody stumps, damn you for every single thing