Chapter 321

“Actually, there is something,” said Xavier. “I’d like to get my clothes back.” Everything he’d just said had come straight from the heart. They hadn’t been pick-up lines. He hadn’t been flirting around. He was truly, madly, deeply in love with her. He’d missed her for five years, now. And even after all that time, she was still holding on to this grudge against him. Now, he needed to scrabble up the flimsiest of excuses, just to see her for even a moment. “What clothes?” Willow asked, perplexed. “That coat I lent you, last night?” Willow suddenly remembered how she’d come down in her nightclothes, the day before. For whatever reason, that fool Xavier had insisted on throwing his coat onto her. Because she’d been wearing Xavier’s coat, Jasper had lost his temper, for whatever reason. She’d spent the rest of the evening being terrorized and tormented by him. “It’s not with me!” Willow snapped. “Willow… don’t tell me you’re holding on to it, as something to remember m