Chapter 327

She couldn’t understand it: Why had Jasper wanted her to make the decision over whether or not to sign the sponsorship agreement for the Food Appreciation Contest? Did Edith Price use to do this for him? Willow thought long and hard… but she simply couldn’t figure out what Jasper was up to. He was an eccentric figure, capricious and confounding. On tenterhooks the whole day, she somehow made it to the end of another work day. Jasper hadn’t come looking for her again, which came as no small relief. The very second that the clock reached the appointed time, Willow got up and left immediately, without waiting around for Jasper like she’d done on her first day. First, she went to the mall to pick up that coat, and then she took the bus home. On the bus, she took the coat out to have a look at it: Not bad, largely identical to the coat that Xavier had thrown over her, that time. It was important to note that this particular item had barely cost her a hundred bucks—as opposed t