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

and Clara, but now Desmond came over

with has nothing to do with you." Katniss stared at

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

quite understood the complex relationship between Maximilian and the

died, the Boleyn family members were not sad

entire Boleyn family had

Maximilian's funeral, she overheard relatives from Desmond's mother's side saying that with

she naively thought it was a struggle for inheritance, so

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

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

Maximilian's death could Desmond rise

down her spine, and the cold wind blowing through the building felt even more piercing. "Don't you find your concern for him laughable?"

do you

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

family and the Hamilton family, though large, had only two legitimate heirs:

teeth. "My brother's illness has been there since birth.

Katniss's slender neck felt as

from birth, but what about his leg?" Katniss struggled to breathe, her face turning

expression changed, and he

few steps, glaring at Desmond with a mocking

from my brother. If you think you can become my sister-in-law, you're dreaming." Desmond's tone was icy, "If I see you clinging

bitterly, "Desmond, what gives you the

shouldn't covet things that don't belong to you!"

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

she was a girl, her family couldn't afford to send her to school. After elementary school, her foster

a yes-man, with no knowledge or education. Was

She had no choice!