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.

her wrist, and deposited it

then she ran off

was well 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

already been eight minutes since Jasper called her. What was she going to do if she couldn't catch

dare to keep waiting.

it down, clambered aboard, told the driver where to go,

was

ten minutes had

any sign of Willow,

Willow was nearly a full mile away from here, and had just begun to

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

dot on his smartphone screen, steadily

the taxi driver to bring her round the back, so that she could be

came in

she risked being spotted by Jasper, which

apart. Wherever she'd come from,

would follow, and her lies would no longer be

distance to her

kept waiting. Willow broke into a