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 out of his

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

go see a doctor. Who I'm with has

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

quite understood the complex relationship between Maximilian and the

life, after Maximilian died, the Boleyn family members were

that the entire Boleyn family had been

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

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

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

was too outstanding. Even though his illness,

death could Desmond rise

spine, and the cold wind blowing through the building felt

do you mean?"

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

had only two legitimate heirs: Maximilian and Desmond, who was once an illegitimate child but later

grabbed her by the neck, gritting his teeth. "My brother's illness has been there since birth. If you don't know, don't talk

grip was strong, and Katniss's slender neck felt as fragile as a feather

about his leg?" Katniss struggled to breathe, her

and he

neck, defensively stepping back a few steps, glaring at Desmond with

brother. If you think you can become 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

gives you the

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

my ex-fiancé? Was it my fault that I was switched at birth? Did I choose to leave my family for over a decade? Clara is enjoying

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 foster parents

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

She had no choice!