Chapter 416: I’m Giving Your Freedom Crystal
Chapter 416: I’m Giving Your Freedom Crystal
“I have to go.” Nathan made an effort to say the four words and slowly loosened his hands.
Subconsciously, Crystal extended her arm, trying to seize Nathan’s hand. But when she raised her hand, Nathan had already gotten up.
Nathan took the coat from the bedside, hung it on his arm, and walked towards the door.
Vic reacted quickly. He opened the door quickly and stood at the door respectfully to wait for Nathan.
“Nathan Davis, stop! Make things clear before you leave!” In anxiety, Crystal shouted at the door.
On hearing Crystal’s yelling, Nathan paused for a few seconds, looked at her, and smiled bitterly, “Crystal Smith, I love you!”
He turned and immediately kept going ahead without looking back.
“Stop! Did you hear me!?” Crystal jerked up and got off the bed, rushing to stop him before he left the ward.
“Tell me, are you playing hard to get?”
“I know you’re taking advantage of my love for you. Fine, what do you want to force me to do this time? I’m giving your freedom Crystal,”
Tears streamed fast from Crystal’s eyes. She wiped it off with the back of her hands and said, “You win, you win this time!”
However, no matter what she said and how hard she cried, Nathan stayed motionlessly. It’s just that his sights grew deeper and deeper.
“You win, and I lose. Are you happy with that? You win again!” Crystal continued yelling at him.
As long as Nathan played hard to get or sympathy-getting ploy, Crystal knew she would definitely lose, and so did Nathan.
Thus, Crystal believed that this must be his trick.
Crystal would rather believe it’s a well-designed scam; she would rather believe that he’s lying to her.
Gazing at Crystal without even blinking his eyes, Nathan was now as stiff as a poker.
“Say something!” Crystal looked at him with hopelessness in her eyes, “Please, say something! Don’t look at me like that. Do you hear me? I will stay with you. I’ll listen to you, I’ll only be with you from now on, okay? Please, don’t treat me like this...”
Nathan eventually opened his mouth.
“I don’t understand what you’re talking about,” his voice was as cold as ice.
To Nathan’s surprise, Crystal suddenly pounced upon him, tightly holding him with her arms.
“Say that you’re lying to me, say it! Or do you have any difficulties?”
“Difficulties? You have too much imagination,” Nathan held her shoulders and pushed her away, “what kind of difficulties do you think I have?”
“Is it your illness? Is it getting serious?”
“Do you think we’re making a film?”
“You lied to me! Why do you still lie to me at this point? Why don’t you tell me the truth?!”
“What truth?”
“Your stomach...”
Nathan’s expression suddenly altered, but luckily Crystal did not see it.
“Yes, I lied to you. But I’m sorry to let you down, it has nothing to do with my health. I’m better than ever.”
Crystal looked up at him with eyes misty with tears, failing to say a word for a moment.
“Yes, it’s all a ploy. I’m still furious that you abandoned me again and again, I have to let you try this knife-stabbing pain that I’ve suffered many times. You can lie to me, so can I lie to you.”
Tears began to spill out of Crystal’s eyes again.
“It feels bad, huh?” Nathan smiled cruelly
and evilly, “Remember, this is the exact way you hurt me.”
“Do you think I, Nathan Davis, is someone who can be trampled time after time by the same woman? And do you think I would come back to you like a poodle you abandoned, licking your shoes as if nothing happened?”
Nathan pinched her chin, “In your eyes, am I so stupid?”
“So, are saving Eric and being nice to me all a part of your revenge ploy? Nathan Davis, do you even believe your own words?”
“Yes, that’s the truth. I hope you can taste the bitterness of falling from heaven to hell, just as I did.”
Crystal didn’t reply, but her eyes did not move away from Nathan for a second.
The smile on Nathan’s face was so fake, so hollow.
Looking at Crystal’ tearful cheeks, Nathan frowned tightly, “You look really ugly when you cry. Don’t cry in front of other men.”
However, Crystal cried harder and uglier. She had never cried before in this uncontrolled, hopeless way. No need for Nathan’s reminds, she could think of how ugly she looked now. Tears and nasal mucus were pasted all over her face, and hair was also stuck on her cheeks.
She wasn’t willing to leave Nathan, she could tolerate living without him for the rest of her life. But she was afraid that Nathan was hiding something from her and more fearful that the hidden truth was about his stomach trouble.
“Let go of me. I have to leave.”
Nathan pushed her away, brushed away the tears that Crystal left on his chest, with a disgusted expression on his face.
As he made a step to leave, Crystal blocked in his way once more.
“You... you lied... lied to me...” Crystal shook with long, racking sobs.
“Believe it or not.”
“Nathan, I beg you. Please do not do this to me. Tell me the truth, okay? I know you’re not that kind of person.”
“Don’t think you know me well? Do you think you’re the only choice for me? You don’t deserve my love,” Nathan tried to free his arm from Crystal’s grasps, “you don’t deserve it!”
Crystal tightened her grasp at him.
She knew that Nathan could easily throw her away if he exerted some strength, but he didn’t.
He’s afraid of hurting her and the baby.
“I’m not going to pester you. I just want to know the truth. Tell me, and I’ll let you go.”
“I’ve told you already, it’s just that you don’t believe me. Do you want to hear something more hateful from me?”
Nathan’s evil and scaring smile reflected in Crystal’s eyes.
“Your look makes me feel fulfilled. It seems that my revenge on you achieves great success.”
“Nathan Davis, what you are doing is just making me sadder.”
As Crystal spoke, tears began to spill out of her eyes again and fell down on Nathan’s palm drop by drop.
“I know you’re trying to make me less guilty and sad, but it would just have the opposite effect.”
Nathan squinted fiercely, jerked up to push her away, but not fiercely.
Yet, Crystal stretched out her arms to encircle his waist.
“Nathan, I didn’t intend to let this child live at the beginning. But Eric has saved my life over and over again, and when he lay in the pool of blood, he said his only wish was me keeping the child. I’ve promised him, so I have to give birth to it healthily, but after that, I’ll hand it over to the Bush family and leave him.”
At this moment, Nathan’s figure froze again.
“I know that you’re lying, otherwise, why did you help Mrs. Bush before you left? Why did you save Eric? Why did you tell me to find a route of retreat and ask me those inexplicable questions?”
Crystal stared at him with a sneer, “Do you think I’m such a fool?”
Nathan, however, looked at her motionlessly, without saying a word.
Suddenly, Crystal grabbed his collar, tiptoed to lift herself, and kissed Nathan on his lips. She forgot herself, kissed Nathan wildly with her heart cramping.
Her trembling lips and tongue managed to part Nathan’s lips, tears slid into their mouths.
However, the next second, she was being pushed hard away cruelly.
She staggered a few steps back and almost fell on the floor.
With loathing on his face, Nathan wiped his mouth, smoothed his crooked collar, and warned, “Mrs. Bush, if you keep pestering me, you’ll regret it.”
“I have the right to know your health condition,” Crystal said.
“Why? Are you my wife? My love? Or my lover?”
“You’re afraid of being found out, so you don’t dare to show me your report.”
“All right. I won’t stop you if you have to see….”
“You’ll cheat,” Crystal interrupted him.
“Do you know how cheap you are?” Nathan suddenly gave Crystal a sly and weird smile. “When I came back to you, you wanted to run away; when I wanted to leave you, you cling on to me. Do you always like to play hard-to-get with men?”
