My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 424

Jasper hadn't been informed of her change of address. He had to be at her old place, instead.

Willow had only just gotten home when she got this phone call from Jasper. Her nerves were all wound up, now.

"Mr. Hughes, I was just about to go to bed. Whatever this is about, can't we just talk on the phone?" Maybe this would allow her to avoid having to meet with him in person...

"Either you're coming down, or I'm coming up! Your choice!" Jasper's voice was sharp and cold.

"Alright, I'll come down... but you'll have to wait awhile for me, because I'm in the bath right now. Let's say half an hour." She tried not to let him hear how nervous she felt.

If he headed upstairs, he'd find out she no longer lived there. Just imagining it made her skin crawl with horror.

After their quarrel earlier today, if she gave him one more reason to get mad at her... it wouldn't end well for her.

In response, Jasper hung up on her without another word.

Willow had barely been allowed to set one foot into her own home, when she had to promptly leave once more, dashing frantically for the staircase.

As she was just about to start down the stairs, it occurred to her that she was still wearing Xavier's jade bracelet.

halted, raced back to her apartment, slipped it off her wrist,

then she ran off into

past ten o'clock in the evening, and this was a quiet neighborhood with little traffic at any time of day. She waited in vain by the roadside for a taxi cab

Jasper called her. What was she going to do if she couldn't catch a

would dare to keep waiting. If his patience

from hysteria, a taxi appeared. She hailed it down, clambered aboard, told the driver where

car, which was presently

minutes had

of

app. It showed him that Willow was nearly a full mile away from here, and had

as Death itself. The mood inside the

at that tiny red dot on his smartphone screen, steadily making its way towards

her round the back, so that she could be seen

came in through the

risked being spotted

she'd

and her lies would no longer be able

was still some distance to her apartment building from

couldn't be kept waiting.