There was a knock at the door. They both turned, and Crystal smiled when she saw that the servant had finally returned with the First Aid Kit.
Crystal nodded and said, "I was just about to leave. Please take proper care of his injuries. I do not want them to get infected."
Nathan frowned, and he stopped Crystal with a word. He said, "Wait," and she turned back to face him. He was confused. He wondered why she cared if he received proper treatment or not. He said, "Didn't you say that you would be staying here for three days? There are still one, and a half-days left. Why are you leaving early?"
"Why?" Crystal was confused, "You just told me to leave! What is wrong with you? Now that everything's out in the open, what would be the point of my staying?"
"What is the point?" Nathan could not believe his ears. "Don't you think you owe me that? You have never treated me nice, except for the last day and a half. I want my full three days of you treating me nice! And to be clear, I ordered you out of my room, not out of my house. You have always been such a drama queen!"
Crystal's face was pale, and she was trembling. She did not know what to say. In the past, she had treated him badly because he had treated her badly. He had changed, though - for her, and she had changed for him. There had been nothing hypocritical about her actions. Her love for him was real, but it could not grow, so she would rather go. Of course, she could not say that to him, so she agreed to stay.
Crystal turned back to the servant and said, "Bring over the First Aid Kit. I will get him cleaned up." She walked over to Nathan, but when she got to him, he ordered her to kneel in front of him instead of showing her his wound.
"Kneel." Crystal frowned. "But why?"
"Are you, or are you not willing to do everything for me?" Nathan smiled and said, "I told you to kneel, so fucking kneel!"
At this point, kneeling in front of him felt like no big deal to Crystal. She had even knelt in front of Eric. So, without any further hesitation, she dropped to her knees in front of Nathan.
Nathan looked down on Crystal with a look of disgust on his face. He could not believe how easy it had been to make her degrade herself in this way. It is as if she gets off on it - he thought rudely. His parted lips were stiff. He had thought that torturing her would make him less angry, but he was wrong. He was angrier than ever.
Crystal's heart was beating fast. Her stomach was in knots, and she felt like she was going to be sick. Unlike that time when she had knelt in front of Eric when she had begged for Carlos's life, she felt her self-esteem disintegrating. The difference was that she loved Nathan, and she hated for him to see her like this, and she hated that he had made her do this!
Nathan nudged her with his foot. "Crystal Smith, where's your dignity?" He grabbed her hair and pulled it hard.
Crystal was forced to look at him. "My dignity is dead," she replied. "It died a long time ago. You killed it - you and other men just like you!"
"Is that so?" Nathan smiled. "If I ordered you to kiss my foot, would you do it? Would you do that for me?"
Crystal drew in a deep breath and said, "Sure. Which one do you want me to kiss? The right one or the left?" As she spoke, she bent slightly and kissed the instep of his right foot.
The moment her lips touched his foot, his c**k responded. A second later, it was as hard as a rock. He watched her, and as her tongue slipped between his toes, he chuckled.
The sound of Nathan's creepy laughter sent a cold chill down Crystal's back. He sounded psychotic, and he frightened her. She was reminded of his alter-ego, Gerald Davis, and the love she had felt for him turned to hate. He had said that he would let her go, but she no longer believed him.
Nathan leaned forward and pulled her hair again. Her head jerked up, and he said, "I want you to remember this moment for the rest of your life. When you get old, and you think about the olden days, you should remember the taste of my feet and feel a sense of honor to have served me."
No matter what Nathan said, Crystal did not reply.
"Of course, you will regret betraying me," Nathan continued. "Unfortunately, time cannot be reversed. You cannot undo the things that you have done, and for the rest of your life, you will be miserable." Crystal remained silent and expressionless, and her indifferent attitude made him extremely angry. "You will regret this, won't you?"
"Yes." Crystal smiled meekly and said, "I will regret it very much." It was the truth, but she hid her pain as best she could.
"Damn it!" Nathan cursed. He knew that she would go straight to Eric once she left him, and he thought that she would forget about him. Thus, he did not think that she was telling the truth.
Nathan thought - I will not let you forget me so easily! I want you to feel guilty forever! I am going to be a relentless thorn in your side, and no matter how often you cry out to God for relief, He will turn His face from you! His hate was as strong as his love had been. Hate gnawed at his reason. It made him crazy, and he was desperate to retaliate against Crystal.
Suddenly, he put his right foot flush against Crystal's face, and he pushed her so hard that she fell backward. Then he stood up, put on his shirt, and walked past Crystal without saying another word.
For a while, Crystal remained on the ground. She worried that Gerald had taken control of Nathan's body. If he had, she knew that there was nothing that she could do. Eventually, she sat up and looked around.. The room was a disaster, and since she had nothing better to do, she began to clean it up.