After her rebirth by Cici

Chapter 65

The temperature on winter nights quietly dropped.

The cold wind slipped through the cracks in the stairwell, making Katniss shiver.

Katniss quickly ran up to the second floor. The lights were off. She fumbled for her keys in her pocket while exhaling a breath.

The voice-activated light on the stairs flicked on.

Katniss stopped in her tracks, her eyes locking onto Desmond, who was waiting at her door.

Katniss frowned, her face turning cold as she walked up.

"What are you doing here?" Katniss's face was fair and delicate like porcelain due to the cold weather, shedding the dullness and vulgarity she had at the Manners Villa. She was still young, her face tender, but you could imagine how stunning she'd be in a year when she fully matured.

Desmond held a cigarette between his fingers, the gray smoke rising and blurring his unreadable face.

"Katniss, stay away from my brother." Desmond took a deep drag of his cigarette, feeling a bit regretful about his earlier thoughts.

What was he even thinking?

Even if Katniss grew to be more beautiful than Clara, so what? A person's kind nature is far more important.

To him, Katniss was a gold-digger with a heart of ice, while Clara was a diamond in the rough, with genuine kindness.

Hearing Desmond's words, Katniss ignored him.

She opened the door with her key and was about to close it when Desmond forcefully blocked it with his hand and wedged half his body inside.

Desmond's eyes were sharp as he said coldly, "Katniss, did you hear what I said?"

Was Desmond out of his

now Desmond came over late at night to warn

sick, go see a doctor. Who I'm with has nothing to

you an idiot? That's my brother. Do you think it has nothing to do with me?" Desmond's expression was irritable as he kicked the door Katniss was holding. The force was so strong that the old

to now, Katniss never quite understood the complex relationship

life, after Maximilian died, the Boleyn family members were not

felt that the entire Boleyn family

funeral, she overheard relatives from Desmond's mother's side saying that with Maximilian dead, and Desmond around, they would be

it was a struggle for inheritance, so it was normal for Desmond's relatives to dislike

her heart was full of Desmond, so she naturally sided with the

though his illness, Desmond could never match up

could

this, Katniss felt a chill down her spine, and the cold wind blowing through the building felt even more piercing. "Don't you find your concern for

you mean?"

"Maximilian is gravely ill. The ones who most wish for his death are the

legitimate heirs: Maximilian and Desmond, who was

his teeth. "My brother's illness has

and Katniss's slender neck felt as fragile

what about his

and he let

a few

Desmond's tone was icy, "If I see you clinging to my brother again, you're going to pay

neck. She leaned against the wall, trembling, and laughed bitterly, "Desmond, what gives you the right to control everything I do? It's like I'm constantly walking

don't belong

cold, "What do you mean by things don't belong to me? My biological parents, my four brothers, and you, my ex-fiancé? Was it my fault that I was switched at birth? Did I choose to leave my family for over

at birth, she grew up in the countryside. Because she was a girl, her family couldn't afford to send her to school. After elementary school, her

with no knowledge or education.

She had no choice!