👿BATTLE OF WITCHES 👿 CHAPTER THREE Juliana! Juliana! where are you!" Adaolisa called after her daughter. "Mama am here ." Juliana replied her mother , as she washed the foam that had covered her hands to her elbow , she ran to the front of the bungalow. She was behind the house , washing her father's clothes. "Have you washed the Onubu leaves that I want to to use to make soup this evening?" She asked her daughter. "No mama , papa asked me to help him wash two of his trousers and shirts ." Juliana answered her mum , keeping distance between her and her mother . "Come here Juliana! Come here!" She said as she chased after her daughter and grabbed her ears . "So I sent you, you left my work to go and do your stupid father's work ?" She asked as she slammed her daughter with the palm of her hands between the ridges of her back , she grabbed her back and began to cry . "Ada why are you beating her ?" Tobias her husband asked , the commotion outside made him to come out . She stared at him from head to toe , then let out a demeaning laughter . "You have mouth to talk? you this useless idiot man! do you have any work ?" She asked, disgusted by her husband." When last did you bring one kobo to feed this family ?" she jeered . "Today you and Your daughter are not going to eat in this house! food you cannot provide , and still you have the guts to call her and send her to wash your miserable clothes, when I sent her . Tobias ị bụ a very mad! nonsense!" she shoved him out of her way . Tobias was a very rich business man with many branches of spare part shops across the country, one by one things began to fail him until he became a pauper that depended on his abusive wife . Adaolisa's mother heard the noise , and came outside with her walking stick. "Mama can you see what Adaolisa is doing ?" He asked with a crestfallen face . Mrs Eunice Adaolisa mother , Was old and walked with the aid of a cane . "What did Adaolisa do ?" she asked her son in-law . "Mama she asked Juliana to help her wash Bitter leave , Chikodi wasn't doing anything, I told Juliana to help me wash two trousers and two shirts . Ada came out and started beating her ." He said with a sad look over his face . "What did you expect? you want to be respected Tobias ?" she asked laughing . "You don't even have a job, you don't have a house , you followed my daughter to her father's house , she feeds you, why would you want her to respect you ? why did you try to disrespect her ?" Eunice asked her son in-law and the man was speechless. "Mama it's nor fair oh!! There are four other children she could send , but no everytime it's Juliana do this , Juliana do that , what's Chikodi doing in her room ?" she asked . "You're a very stupid man Tobias! if you don't get out of my face I will beat you with my walking stick idiot!" She yelled at her son in-law, Tobias cowed away . He kept on cursing the day he married Adaolisa, his parents warned him not to marry Eunice's daughter , but he was blinded by her beauty . He couldn't imagine himself who had three cars and two houses in Aba and his Village , now squatting with his wife's family for ten years. The crowd of visitors and sympathisers had stopped trooping to the Ibe's compound . Ezinne was feeling empty , she had a kind of strong and tenacious connection with her son, she wondered what had happened . Ezinne was on call when Emeka's Nigerian number showed on the screen of her android phone . "Hey baby girl how far ?" Emeka teased his mother . To be continued ___________