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.

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 between us, so that we

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

pick it up anyway, and I'll give my

dissuade him: "Don't you dare! My mother won't tolerate your presence here! You're

"Yup."

about to burst out the door, when she realized that she was still in her nightclothes

events, and so she raced back to

of night encroached upon the

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

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

over to

safely out of

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

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

to go buy a new one

the car." Xavier watched her

he'd come here was to see her.