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.

remember me by?" Xavier teased playfully. "Perhaps you still have feelings for me? Why can't we work things

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

fine. I'll come by your place to pick it up anyway, and I'll give my

could hang up on her, Willow scrambled to dissuade him: "Don't you dare! My mother won't tolerate your presence

"Yup."

right there. I'll come down immediately." She hung up, and was just about to burst out the door, when

terrible idea to repeat that sequence of events, and so

gloom of night encroached upon the

shadow of his towering figure stretching absurdly across

a silver-gray suit, which combined with his short, chestnut- brown hair

over to him,

safely out

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

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

to go buy a

the car." Xavier watched her with eyes radiating

reason he'd come here was to see her.