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"Did you kill her?" Ella asked again with a very low voice. 

Francis didn't like how Distant Ella was now, he felt a pang of pain in his chest as he watched her. He looked at his palm, the same ones he used to choke her to almost death.

He clenched his fist as he tried controlling his pain. "What would you like to eat?" He asked her trying to change her mood.

Ella wept with the thought of the woman dead, she failed the boy and she wished she hadn't survived. Francis noticed the tears in his eyes which pricked his heart once he saw them.

"The woman isn't dead, I didn't kill her," He uttered. Ella said nothing else. "But I will kill her," He added making the knot in Ella's stomach to tighten.