Chapter 420

His words caught Willow off guard and made her uneasy.

Instead of responding to him, she asked, "Have you treated your wound?"

He was limping back at the hospital and had a cut on his face, but he stubbornly refused treatment.

A few days had passed since, so Willow wondered if he tended to his injuries.

"You'll know once you meet me," Xavier answered.

Willow said, "I'm going to bed. If you don't have anything else to say, I'm hanging up."

"If you won't come out, I'll call Jasper for a duel. The winner gets to be with you. Don't worry, I'll put my life on the line for this fight." Xavier's voice was low and urgent. He wasn't being impulsive nor said it as a threat.

He was going to use his life to fight for a chance to be with her.

Willow felt a sharp pain in her chest.

The memory of Xavier driving a car that caught fire was still vivid in her mind. He looked like a madman ready to throw his life away.

sure that he would do something outrageous that put his life at risk

challenge Jasper for

one to suffer no matter the

would never let

said, "Xavier, don't

to do it, come out now. I'm downstairs," Xavier

of

be at the previous

stops away from where

would have done something crazy if Willow didn't

I'm in the shower now. I'll come downstairs once

keys before rushing out the door to hail a cab to the old

the cab driver stop at the back entrance of the

the area and circled around from the back of the

he had short chestnut brown hair and a slender figure. He looked somewhat desolate with bandages wrapped around his

It was Xavier.

over to

coming from the side of the building since he had been watching the building's stairway instead. Willow was wearing a white dress with her dark hair, still damp, falling on her shoulders. Her fair and delicate face

he watched her with affection and pain in

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