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.

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 out

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

it up anyway, and I'll give my regards to your

on her, Willow scrambled to dissuade him: "Don't you dare! My mother won't tolerate your presence here! You're downstairs, right

"Yup."

just about to burst out the door, when she realized that

decided it would be a terrible idea to repeat that sequence of events,

upon the soft glow

stood beneath a streetlamp, the shadow of his towering figure stretching absurdly across the

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

went over to him,

safely out

said your coat is dripping wet, so it would be awkward to return it to you right now. When it's dried, I'l have it sent to your company office. How's

his mansion.

have to go buy a

on. Let's talk in the car." Xavier watched her with

main reason he'd come here was to see