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?

longer have any feelings for you whatsoever. It's not that I want to keep your coat-but my mother just washed it,

come by your place to pick it up anyway, and

him: "Don't you dare! My mother

"Yup."

hung up, and was just about to burst out

events, and so she raced back to her room, grabbed some clothes from the closet,

night encroached upon the soft glow of incandescent

beneath a streetlamp, the shadow of his

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

over to

safely out of his

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

his coat yesterday, and tossed it into his bathroom at his mansion. She had no idea private what condition it

buy a new

in the car." Xavier watched her with

to see her. He couldn't care less about that

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