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.

slipped it off her wrist, and deposited it into one of the drawers in the shoe

ran off into the

well past ten o'clock in the evening, and this was a quiet neighborhood with little traffic at any time of day. She

minutes since Jasper called her. What was

the sort of man anyone would dare to keep waiting. If his patience ran out, it would cost

was about to collapse from hysteria, a taxi appeared. She hailed it down, clambered aboard, told the driver where to go, and urged him to

in his car, which was presently

ten minutes had

of Willow,

Willow was nearly a full mile away from here,

became as grim as Death itself. The mood inside the car was ice-cold, like the desolate heart of

red dot on his smartphone screen, steadily making its way

to bring her round the back, so that she could be seen emerging from within the

she came in through the

instead, she risked being spotted by

Wherever she'd come from, he'd know

would follow, and her lies would no longer

distance to her apartment building from the rear entrance

be kept waiting. Willow