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.

don't 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

you countless times, I no longer have any feelings for you whatsoever.

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

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

"Yup."

and was just about to

would be a terrible idea to repeat that sequence of events, and so she raced back to her room, grabbed

encroached upon the soft glow of

beneath a streetlamp, the shadow of his towering figure stretching

a silver-gray suit, which combined with his short,

over to him,

safely out

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

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

to go buy

in the car." Xavier watched her with eyes radiating fond

reason he'd come here was to see her. He couldn't care less about that