My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 321

"Actually, there is something," said Xavier. "I'd like to get my clothes back."

Everything he'd just said had come straight from the heart. They hadn't been pick- up lines. He hadn't been flirting around.

He was truly, madly, deeply in love with her. He'd missed her for five years, now.

And even after all that time, she was still holding on to this grudge against him.

Now, he needed to scrabble up the flimsiest of excuses, just to see her for even a moment.

"What clothes?" Willow asked, perplexed.

"That coat I lent you, last night?"

Willow suddenly remembered how she'd come down in her nightclothes, the day before. For whatever reason, that fool Xavier had insisted on throwing his coat onto her.

Because she'd been wearing Xavier's coat, Jasper had lost his temper, for whatever reason. She'd spent the rest of the evening being terrorized and tormented by him.

"It's not with me!" Willow snapped.

tell me you're holding on to it, as something to remember me by?" Xavier teased playfully. "Perhaps you still have feelings for me? Why can't we work things

found this suggestion to be incredibly irksome. "Don't get carried away," she admonished placidly, "As I've informed you countless times, I no longer have any feelings for you whatsoever. It's not that I want to keep your coat-but my mother just washed

up anyway, and I'll give my

could hang up on her, Willow scrambled to dissuade him: "Don't

"Yup."

down immediately." She hung up, and was just about to burst out the door, when she realized that she was still in her

happened last time, she decided it would be a terrible idea to repeat that sequence of events, and so she raced back to her room, grabbed some clothes from the closet, changed, and

upon the soft glow

a streetlamp, the shadow of his towering figure stretching absurdly

suit, which combined with his short, chestnut- brown hair to create the image of a

went over to him,

safely out

to return it to you right now. When it's dried, I'l have it

away his coat yesterday, and tossed it into his bathroom at his mansion. She had no idea private what condition it was currently in, or

buy a new

car." Xavier watched her with eyes radiating

was to see her.