My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 380

Why would Hailey talk about her mother, on television?!

The little girl mentioned that her mother had gone missing four days ago... could she possibly mean Willow?!

Hailey's voice issued from the television set, adorably earnest: "My mother's name is easy to remember. It sounds sweet and lovely."

Willow felt as though her soul was ready to depart from this world, so imminent was the peril...

Hailey was about to reveal that she was Willow's own daughter.

And here, right in front of her, was Jasper in all his chilling menace, slender fingers clutching her jaw in a vice grip, handsome face glaring balefully at her, cold as ice.

She was being pressed down onto the executioner's block. Her nerves were being stretched to breaking point.

"My mother's name is..."

Pow! Just before Hailey could speak Willow's name aloud, she was cut off when the television screen switched off abruptly-along with all the lights in the living

room.

heaved a long sigh of relief. Her hair and back were all sodden

no longer as much sunlight available, so the sudden loss of

observe every detail on Willow's face. When he said that he wouldn't be giving

close enough that he could feel each ragged breath

he regarded her coldly. "So you'd

all tensed up once more. In the limpid pools of her eyes, terror floated up, too great

birth control pills!" she stammered nervously. "So I can't get pregnant, don't you worry! I know you don't like kids. I

she'd said that she did. Then, he'd declared that she wouldn't be getting any from

taken her until now to get what he'd meant by that. It was only when she'd detected the coldness in his tone that she

had no intention of getting her pregnant, nor would he allow her to have any children by him. He didn't like kids, and there was no merit in him letting Willow

heart throbbed with pain, in spite of herself. The

about her

What about her...?

sort of pleased to hear such agreeable terms from her. With a curt harrumph, he

on in the living room-along with the television. However, instead of

so

him away. Leon bowed

trip at just that exact