Chapter 41: Toxic Love

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Francis keenly observed Elle as she impatiently stared at her phone almost as if she was waiting for a call or a text. She has been at it for hours and he wondered what she was waiting for.

"What evil scheme are you devising now, Elleanor Steele?" He tautingly asked before regretting his actions of speaking to her. He shouldn't have spoken to her.

Elle raised her head and smiled at him, but her smile creeped him out. Everything about her irked him to his bones. "You don't have to pretend like you hate me all the time. I know you don't." She smiled while he scoffed at her.

"You're just delusional." He hissed. How foolish of him to start a conversation with her. These last few days with her has been horrible. He had never experienced worst days in his life.

She had intentionally left his card and phone, making him stranded and stuck with her. Who knew if she had them hidden or had gotten rid of them? He didn't believe her lie of saying she had forgotten to take them with her. The girl was too calculative.

How he longed to call Nevaeh and hear her voice. Tell her he was going to come for her as soon as he handled the mess with her crazy sister.

He peeked at her from under his brows when he felt her gaze on him.

"Are you not tired of pretending to hate me?" A playful yet taunting smile curved her lips as she stared at him in a sultry way.

'Pretending?' Francis almost laughed at the ridiculity of her question. This girl seems to be smoking something bad.

He shot her a knowing look, that told her she was being stupid for asking such a question.

"If this is pretence, then I want to pretend for the rest of my life." He curtly replied before returning his attention to the television. Watching stupid movie channels has become the boring hobby of his life. But he would endure this for a short while, so he could return to his love, soon.

A quick frown framed her face as she stared at him with unreadable eyes, before composing herself and smiling broadly at him again. "Because of my sister?" She asked. "You really think you prefer my sister over me?" 

A derisive scoff rolled out his lips as he shot her a pointed look. "I don't think Elle, I know it."

She lolled back on her chair and crossed her legs, her gaze intently fixed on him. "I disagree Francis. You don't know who and what you want." She told him. Francis hated that smile on her face. He hated the very look in her eyes. It riled him up in ways he never knew he could be. But he simply rolled his eyes and ignored her. He didn't have the time for her nonsense. He could kill her with his bare hands if he considered her attitude. She could deceive herself for all he cares.

"Francis" She called his name when he rudely ignored her, but that riled him up. He tossed the remote to the ground and sternly glared at her.

"Who do you think you are?" He snapped back at her, slightly startling her, but he could see the excitement in her eyes as her eyes glistened in seeing him vexed. 

"Your wife to be?" She tilted a brow at him.

"Elle, I don't know what you want by doing this, but you should have a rethink. This would hurt your sister."

"Hurt my sister?" For the first time since this crazy argument started she looked at him in a serious way.

"You both hurt me first." She snapped. "You hurt me when you left me for her." 

Francis felt a vein in his head twitch. What nonsense was she saying? He never left her for Nevaeh.

"I never left you for her, you pushed me into her arms." He bellowed, pointing a finger at her.

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"Three years Elle. For three damned years I loved you. I waited and begged you to give me a minute of your affection but you tossed my feelings to my face. You used me to no end. You made my love toxic but you expected me to cling unto you?"

"Yes! That's what true love is all about." She fired back, making him hiss at her. He sighed and lowered his voice. Now he was happy to see her vexed up.

"You sound like you know the true meaning of love, Elleanor. If you think my feelings for you weren't real, then I guess I never loved you."

Her hands clenched into a fist and as she tried to hold back the tears that now warmed her eyes. "And you think you love her? You think you love my sister?" 

He raised a brow at her and asked, not minding the broken look on her face. For all he knows they were fake. "What do you think? Why do you think I'm here with you?"

"Because of the baby? And me?" Her voice was utterly low as her heart hammered behind her chest.

"No Elle. I'm here because I don't want to go back to her with a baggage such as yourself. Elleanor, you can't eat your cake and have it. Life doesn't revolve around you. No one clings to relationships that are toxic to them. Get that into your thick skull." He glared at her and hissed.

Seeing her in this despicable form he wondered what he had seen in her before. Fine, there was once a time he had been swoon by her diligence, her leadership spirit, her capability to strive and succeed in the midst of men who looked down on women. She had toppled them and made a seat for herself, but he had missed out on the other parts she lacked not until they started dating. He tried to understand and support for years but the more he tried, the more she let him down, stringing and toiling with his heart along the way. 

Elle's fingers dug deeper into her palms while her body shook with rage. She bit her lips and exhaled to calm herself before speaking again. "Francis I've apologized. I made a mistake. Can't you see I'm trying? I'm carrying our baby." 

"Trying? You call this trying?" He looked at her incredulously. "This isn't you trying. This is you being selfish, manipulative and evil. Have you wondered how all of this affects Nevaeh? Did you for once ask if I wanted this? And that child isn't mine!"

Several seconds of silence elasped as they both stared at each other.

"You were just using her." She mumbled in a convincing tone, not sure if she was trying to convince herself or him. Something fueled in her eyes as she repeated herself. "You were just using Nevaeh. You were using her to get back at me."

Using Nevaeh? Francis couldn't believe her. It was obvious she wasn't mentally stable.

He turned away from her and sighed. "Maybe at first I was. I was too hooked on you I lost my mind the first time I saw her." A self demeaning laugh escaped his lips as he looked into the distance like he had fallen into a trance. "I thought it was the heaven granting me a second chance with you, and later I wanted to hurt you, but Nevaeh... she's different. She was a breath of fresh air. She made my heart race in ways I haven't felt before."

"Stop it!" She roared, but he ignored her and continued. 

"Her heart is good and pure, I felt I could wait a thousand years if she asked me to." He turned towards her smiled. "It was my mistake for even thinking she was a replacement, but the truth is, she can never be a replacement, and especially not for someone like you." He said, looking into her eyes which were burning with rage.

'Someone like her.' What was she like?

A tear rolled down her face as she looked at him. A wry smile split her face as she nodded her head. 

"Francis." She called his name amid tears, but Francis wasn't at all moved by the pathetic look on her face. To him, she should consider it a privilege he was sitting quietly and accommodating her foolishness. Did she think her tears would move him? He had once been in that position. Crying and begging her, completely letting go of his shame but she had stringed him along for years even when she knew he wasn't her choice. That she was never going to return his feelings. So what was she all about now? Why was she going through all this to keep him by her side?

He watched her as she cried but her tears made him irk.

"Francis, am I really worth nothing to you?" She asked. "Do you really not love me at all?" Her once vibrant voice sounded so small and broken.

"Elleanor Steele, you mean nothing to me.." He coldly replied.

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