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?"

getting annoyed. Was Desmond

stopped approaching him and Clara, but now Desmond came over late at night to

Who I'm with

my brother. Do you think it has nothing to do with me?" Desmond's expression was irritable as he kicked the

life to now, Katniss never quite understood the complex relationship between Maximilian and the

died, the Boleyn family members were

felt that the entire Boleyn

saying that with Maximilian dead,

was a struggle for inheritance,

full of Desmond, so she naturally sided with the one

thinking back now, Maximilian was too outstanding. Even though his illness, Desmond could

with Maximilian's death could Desmond rise

felt a chill down her spine, and the cold wind blowing through the building

do you mean?"

and said calmly, "Maximilian is

family and the Hamilton family, though large, had only two legitimate heirs: Maximilian and Desmond, who was once

gritting his teeth. "My brother's illness

and Katniss's slender neck felt as fragile

about his leg?" Katniss struggled to breathe,

and he

back a few steps,

my sister-in-law, you're dreaming." Desmond's tone was icy, "If I see you clinging to my brother again, you're going to pay for

laughed bitterly, "Desmond, what gives you the right to control

shouldn't covet things that don't belong to

belong to me? My biological parents, my four brothers, and you, my ex-fiancé? Was it my fault that

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

was a people-pleaser, a yes-man, with no knowledge or

She had no choice!