Third-person pov
"Nellie! Will you please stop crying for a moment and try to reason with me?"
Eke had finally lost patience with her; she had spent nearly half an hour trying to explain to the girl why she couldn't stay with her, but all Nellie did was cry and beg, which was getting on her nerves.
Mr Duke Edem, Eke's father, died a year after her marriage to Timothy, leaving his wife Mrs Melody Edem to care for the house and family. Except for Marie, Eke's siblings left their family's mansion after their father died. They all moved to different parts of the country to settle down and, for some, start their own families. So, since the enormous house had essentially become empty, Eke and her current husband had jumped at the chance to move back into her father's mansion, as her husband
