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 getting annoyed. Was Desmond out

Clara, but now Desmond came over late at night to warn her. He

Who I'm with has nothing to do with you." Katniss

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

her past life to now, Katniss never quite understood the complex relationship

after Maximilian died, the Boleyn family members were not

felt that the entire Boleyn family had been anticipating Maximilian's

mother's side saying that with Maximilian dead, and Desmond around,

she naively thought it was a struggle for inheritance, so it was normal

her heart was full of Desmond, so she

was too outstanding. Even though his illness, Desmond

with Maximilian's death could

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

you mean?" Desmond

go of the door, giving up her resistance, and said calmly, "Maximilian is gravely ill. The ones who most wish

legitimate

grabbed her by the neck, gritting his teeth. "My brother's illness has

strong, and Katniss's slender neck felt

what about his leg?" Katniss struggled to breathe, her

changed, and he let

a few steps, glaring at Desmond

Desmond's

obvious marks on her neck. She leaned against the wall, trembling, and laughed bitterly, "Desmond, what gives you the right to control

don't belong to you!"

it my fault that I was switched at birth? Did I choose to leave my family for over a decade?

girl, her family couldn't afford to send her to school. After elementary school, her foster parents wanted her to

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

She had no choice!