After her rebirth by Cici

Chapter 57

Felix stood there, kinda dazed, his eyes flicking over to the kitchen door. Through the frosted glass, he could see Katniss hustling around, her slim figure moving non-stop.

"If she was out to get me, why'd she tell me someone was messing with my meds?" Maximilian's voice was all cool and detached, but his eyes had this sarcastic glint. "If it weren't for her heads-up, I'd probably be six feet under by now, thanks to that poison."

Felix's face went pale in a heartbeat.

"Don't jinx it like that," Felix said, frowning hard.

For a sec, he was genuinely freaked out.

Katniss whipped up a small pot of coffee pudding, set aside two bowls for Felix and Maximilian, and packed the rest into some plastic containers.

She shoved the leftover ingredients into the fridge.

No way she was taking them home. Her family never got to taste any of it. Anna probably gave it away or sold it, which ticked Katniss off.

After wrapping up, Katniss said her goodbyes and headed to the coffee shop with the coffee pudding.

Even though it was almost finals season and students were cramming, the coffee shop was still hopping.

dozen seats, but

were grabbing their drinks to go, forming

let's hit up another spot. This line's insane!" The guy outside the shop was already feeling the headache

already bragged about it to my friends. If I

quickly joined

besides the usual crowd, there were now some locals at Amara's coffee

Amara's place had been dropping one killer new drink after another, totally outshining the other coffee

shop was

that other coffee shops were trying to come up with something new too, but

girls finally got to the front of the line. One of them frowned at the new server and asked, "Where's Katniss? We

clueless, said, "Katniss? Sorry, but we

No way they'd keep someone like

coffee game too? If you open a coffee shop, we wouldn't have to wait in these crazy lines." Laura Evans sneered, "Our tea shop caters to high-end clients. How can you even compare it to this lowly coffee joint? Besides, how much money can you really make from it? It's just popular with regular folks. You think they can open a chain?" One of the girls, hearing Laura's snobby tone, kept quiet. She scooped up some of the soft pudding and thought to herself that this coffee shop seemed to have a

but Laura had no vision, coming here just to mess with Katniss. Last

another girl nudged Laura's

Katniss not only skipping the line to

instantly

Didn't she

abruptly and stormed to the counter. "Didn't you say there's no Katniss here? Then who just walked

quickly tried to smooth things over, saying, "Excuse me, ma'am. If there's an issue, let's discuss it over