Chapter 184. How Dare You Talk to Me Like That
Once they were alone, Nathan examined Crystal from head to toe. “Are you sure that you are okay?”
“I’m fine,” Crystal said. “I think I’d like to go for a walk, though.”
Nathan scooped up her hand and said that he would join her. She pushed him away, though, and told him that she wanted to be alone.
“But it’s not safe,” Nathan argued.
Crystal: “I don’t care. This villa feels like a prison, and it’s not like I’m any safer in here than I would be out there, as today has shown us.”
“Why do you feel like this place is a prison?” Nathan asked.
Crystal sighed and wordlessly turned away. She had thought that once she was a permanent resident of the villa, everything would be fine. But then Helen and Elma moved in, and now that she had Christine to contend with and the death traps, she felt overwhelmed, and if she couldn’t leave, then was it any different from a Hellish prison? She didn’t think so.
Crystal opened her mouth, and she was just about to
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