Chapter 22 Were they dead?

• Anger burst forth from Roksolana's heart itself. What had she done to deserve such ill-treatment from the sultan? All she had done was looked out for the ungrateful man by warning him about his mistress plan. Why had she even bothered in the first place? The man deserves whatever trouble he got from that vicious woman. In fact, they deserve each other given their characters. She should have left him in the trouble, after all, he killed her entire family.
• Roksolana stayed calmly as the guards tied her to a standing board with ropes. She didn't have the energy to argue with them, knowing that they would carry out the order in one way or another. Besides, it wasn't their fault and she didn't want any more people to get into trouble with the Sultan because of her. Then, arguing means losing whatever little strength she had left. And if she had heard correctly, the Sultan had instructed them not to give her any meal.
• Anger took hold of her again. If she looked at it correctly, she was suffering an injustice. She had been starved for the whole day, locked up in a house all by herself and she had nearly died from fighting with that intruder. All because she had opened her mouth and told the Sultan about what she had seen. What had happened anyway? Why hadn't the Sultan caught Lady Miriam with her lover? Or the man hadn't bothered to find out if she was telling the truth? For all Roksolana knew, he could have told Lady Miriam about what she had said. She had to know what happened. She couldn't take it anymore.