MARRIED TO HIS MOTHER
CHAPTER EIGHT
After some minutes of screaming Kemisola’s name and pouring of water on her head, she opened her eye just a weak peason.
“Ahh, please, don’t kill yourself here, now stand up and get going” Clara shouted at her and her mother.
Asabi was puzzled as she just looked on and asked Kemisola to stand, holding her hands she pulled her up and shakes her head.
“You are the cause of this disgrace. Since the day I was born, I was never disgraced like this” Asabi said to her daughter using her left hand to wipe the tears that had gathered in her eye.
“Please here is not a place of crying nor weeping, just take your daughter and leave here now before we start shouting on top of your head calling you thieves” Clara added to her words and claps her hands at them.
“Hmm, what a disgrace, ahh, I fell insulted, you of all people should be saying all these to me, no problem, it is not your fault if it was not this one that gave her food to the dog to eat, mtceeew”Asabi said and hissed.
” please, oya start going”Clara clapped at them pushing the two of them out of the compound with the help of Mama Labake. They succeeded in sending them away with Kemisola sobbing and calling on Olamilekan’s name but it was too late they were driven out of the house. ”
“Next time you open the gate for this miscreants, I will ensure that you are sent away from this place without second thought.” Iya Labake shouted at Clara who was in shock.
“I don’t want competition in my son’s house” She screamed into her ears and Clara nodded like someone who was told not to speak.
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Clara woke up very early in the morning to prepare food for the family but she was shocked when Mama had already set the table with her son’s favourite meal, Amala and Ewedu.
“Who eats this heavy food in the morning. At least he should be taking something light” Clara said to herself, trying to shift the food to one side of the table.
“This woman will just kill her son with food that are not edible to body” She said and arranged hers beside the table. She then went in to call Olamilekan to come out and eat his food. Olamilekan came down and after brushing his teeth went straight to the dining table. Since Kemisola had been sent out of the house, Olamilekan had not utter a words of prayer even when he tried to pray, it was stopped by mama.
“No one should utter any words like prayer here, you should just wake up and go about your business, if I hear such in this house, fire would fall, hope am communicating ehh, Olamilekan” Iya Labake said touching her ears as a sign of letting him understand that she was serious with what she was saying.
“Yes mama” he replied and since then, he has not utter any words of prayers. The house became very cold and an habitat for mama to operate. Before she finds it difficult to transform and attend her meetings but now that she has finally placed a stop to prayers there was nothing serving as hindrance to her anymore, so she could go to her witchcraft meetings and return without any hurt or challenge.
To make it more easier for her she converted the sitting room to her coven and held meetings right inside the sitting room since there was no fire any where.
“This your son’s sitting room is better for us to be using for our meetings” One of the members said to Iya Labake
“Yes, since it is more comfortable” Iya Labake replied.
“There is no more challenge unlike when that your daughter -in-law was still here, that man’s name she always call causes problem to us when she was saying her lazy prayers, ahhj ahhh, ahhh” The leader laughed hard.
“I have placed a ban on that so there is no cause for alarm” She replied.
That is good, we can convert their kitchen to where we would be disciplining our preys and butchering those we want to k!ll spiritually, while the dining room would be used for serving of our prey’s meat. The bedroom would be converted to where we would transform whenever we want to leave the meeting”The leader of the group suggested.
“Your wish is my command leader, I have no power to say NO to your request” Mama Labake said to them.
“You have been a loyal member since you have joined this group, is there anything you want us to do for you” They asked Iya Labake who was smiling.
“I think the new lady in this house named Clara is somehow trying to compete with me in my son’s house” she replied
“Compete with you, she dare not” The leader had replied.
That was before the show of face that later developed between Iya Labake and Clara following the food she had prepared.
As Olamilekan got to the dining table, he opened the foods set on the table but instead of eating from Clara’s food, he started eating the food prepared by his own mother. He was already eating when Clara walked in after brushing her teeth. She thought Olamilekan would be waiting for her to come so that they could eat the food she had prepared together but she was surprised seeing him eating from mama’s food and not hers.
“What is the meaning of this, Olamilekan” Clara shouted
“That?” Olamilekan asked her
“I already prepare your food, why are you now eating mama’s own” she protested.
But as she was talking, mama walked inside.
“Are you saying, am not good at cooking or what is your question” Mama asked her.
“He should be eating my food mama” Clara said to her.
“Oh, tell me where that was written” She asked her looking as if she wants to swallow her.
“Let me tell you and listen well for your own good, I am the first wife of my son and whatever’ I tell him to do, he must do, he has no voice of his own, so let that get into your head” she said to her.
“But mama, am now his wife” Clara said to her.
“Says who, I don’t recognise you as a wife, where is the wife in you” Mama Labake said to her.
“But mama” Clara said looking at her in the eye.
“If you dare look at me again in the eye, I will show you where you belong” Mama said to her.
Clara faced Olamilekan to check his reaction but instead, he was just cool without showing remorse.
Clara noticed that her charm was not potent on Olamilekan as she was surprised.
“Oh, sorry, you thought you can cage his heart with that petty charm and diabolic means of yours, you are just a kid, my dear, I only behaved as if I was not aware, you were putting love portion in his food, ahhh, ahhh, you are joking, so far am still alive nothing of such would work on him.
” No woman can take my place in his heart, I have already caged his heart and soul and they all belong to me, no one , I repeat no one born of a woman can change his heart against me or take his place. He is just a man in the physical but spiritually he is a dunce” Mama Labake said to Clara.
“I control whatever he does” She added.
Clara opened her mouth in shock as she could not believe what she was hearing. She wonders how a mother could decide to cage his son’s mind.
“So hope you understand now” mama said to to her.
Clara was shocked beyond what her imagination could comprehend, she knew if she wanted to achieve her aim, she had to be ready for real fight.
Clara decided to visit an herbalist for a more stronger and potent portion that would help her take charge of the house.
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“What was the last dream you had before this incident” A man who was elderly asked Kemisola.
“Yes sir, the last dream I had was that, I and my friend Clara were strolling in a street, she asked me to follow her somewhere but unknowingly to me there was a pit in the front and I fell inside, but instead of my friend to help me, she was laughing hard at me” Kemisola said to the man.
“So you had that kind of dream,what was the action you took” he asked her.
“Sir, I felt it was just not really necessary since she was so nice to me in the physical and I felt It’s the devil trying to cause problem between us” She replied.
“Do you know that you caused all these problem for yourself, my daughter”The old man said to her.
” yes Sir “she replied
” how is your spiritual life”he asked.
“I mean how much do you pray and how closer are you to God”.
” ahh, to be sincere Sir, we only pray when we wake up in the mornings and most times it is when we are dressing for work that we pray, like when we are wearing out dress”she replied.
“That is not prayer, you are not communicating with God, you are only observing what I called rituals, you only do that because you felt it is something you must do but It was not part of you” the man said to her.
“But…” She said.
“But what?” He asked.
“You have to improve on your prayer life and move closer to God so that you can fight this battle and win.”
“You are fighting against principalities and powers, ruler of darkness. You must not be a weak Christian. The devil and rulers of darkness do not sleep, they roar day and night seeking for whom to devour and when you are weak they consume you” the man replied.
“Pray when you feel like and when you don’t feel like, pray always , when it is better an when It is not” the man added.
“Today, is not the time for weeping my dear, you have to stand up and fight for your right and with God by your side you will overcome.” He added.
“You have foundational battles to deal with yet you are playing with your life, you knew that your other two sisters suffered the same things yet you ignore the warning and still remained weak in prayer. If you want to get back what is yours, then be ready to give it your fight through prayers because that is the only way you can fight spiritual battles” The man said to her while Kemisola was sobbing.
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“Ahh, elders don’t be asleep, it seems Kemisola and her mother are trying to fight us” Iya Labake shouted
“Yes, we saw that coming but how far can she go, she is easily distracted” The leader of the group replied her smiling.
“What are we going to do to stop her from launching an attack against our kingdom or breaking free from the chains she is in” Iya Labake asked them.
“We are going to fire arrow of discouragment into her life once she is discouraged, she would lose interest in doing anything to launch attack on us” The leader replied.
“We shall summon the spirit of depression into her, we would cause distraction for her” The leader added and Iya Labake was satisfied.
“Let it be done according to your will” she replied.
“The war has just started” Iya Labake declared.
