Chapter 37 Aroused

• Jamal fingered his clean-shaven mustache and regretted letting Roksolana get away from him. After all, he had gone through all the trouble because of her. How did she fail to see his handsome look? He wondered as he looked into the vanity resting on a table beside his bed, smiling.
• She probably hadn't noticed because she was busy trying to swallow the salty rice she had brought for him, Jamal thought smiling. He wondered if he had been too hard on her earlier, but he shook his head against it, reminding himself that he could have been crueler than that. His whole thought was already centered on her and he wondered if he would be able to get any sleep at all. Jamal's body screamed at the feelings he was arousing in them.
• Roksolana got back to the kitchen and hurriedly dropped the food into the waste bin, not wanting the kitchen head to see her. She told two maids to go and get the remaining food trays from the Sultan's house but was surprised when they returned empty-handed. It turns out that the guards had turned them away from the house with the words that only Roksolana was permitted to get into the house without any restrictions.