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

came over late at night to warn her.

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

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 door

Katniss never quite understood the complex relationship between Maximilian

the Boleyn family members were not sad at all, instead,

that the entire Boleyn family had been

from Desmond's mother's side saying that

struggle for

Desmond, so she

back now, Maximilian was too outstanding. Even though

death could Desmond

her spine, and the cold wind blowing through the building felt even more piercing.

do you mean?"

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

large, had only two legitimate heirs: Maximilian and Desmond, who

teeth. "My brother's illness has been there

and Katniss's slender neck felt as

is from birth, but what about his leg?" Katniss struggled to

and he

her neck, defensively stepping back a few

Desmond's tone was icy, "If I see you

marks on her 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 on eggshells around you. What

don't belong to you!"

four brothers, and you, my ex-fiancé? Was it my fault that I was switched at

a girl, her family couldn't afford to send her to school. After elementary school, her foster parents wanted her to go work with fellow

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

She had no choice!