After her rebirth

After Katniss left, Felix walked in and shut the door behind him.

"Over the past few days, some unfamiliar faces have been hanging around the villa. Emilio and the others have already taken care of them," Felix said with a sigh, clearly annoyed. "You're in this condition, and they still won't leave you alone. Don't they have any sense that you're family?"

Maximilian wheeled himself over to the big floor-to-ceiling window, lifted a corner of the curtain, and peered outside. The vast black night looked like a cold pool, and his eyes seemed to freeze everything they touched. "This is good. I won't have to hold back," Maximilian said softly. His handsome face looked especially captivating under the moonlight. "They want to elevate Desmond. Fine. But they'll have to go through me." Maximilian let go of the curtain, turned back, and looked at Felix. "When was the last time we donated medical equipment to Sunrise Hospital?"

"Earlier this year, I think," Felix recalled.

Because of Maximilian's health issues, Samuel and Carlton had been investing in medical advancements every year, hoping that one day, medicine would progress enough to cure him.

"It's been a while. Let's donate another two million dollars," Maximilian said.

Felix was momentarily stunned, full of confusion. It hadn't even been a year. Was that considered a long time?

Maximilian pursed his thin lips and continued to look at the documents.

"Got it. Indeed, it's been a while," Felix suddenly understood, a smile appearing on his face.

He would handle it the next day.

As he reached the door, Felix held the doorknob and then turned back to ask, "Mr. Hamilton, should we move Mrs. Hamilton to the master bedroom?" Maximilian's eyes flickered, "No need. She likes that room. She might not get used to another one."

Felix nodded and then left.

He then found the housekeeper and instructed, "Tomorrow, tidy up Mr. Hamilton's master bedroom and move his things to Mrs. Hamilton's room." Since Katniss didn't want to change, Maximilian would be willing to.

Felix felt relieved. He used to worry that Maximilian, having little contact with girls, wouldn't know how to care for someone.

Now it seemed Maximilian was quite considerate of Katniss.

Although Katniss was still in school, it wasn't unheard of to study while being pregnant and having children. Should he start preparing a nursery?

Felix frowned, another problem arose. Should he prepare a nursery for a baby boy or a baby girl?

What if they had twins?

Oh, the house had become lively with a mistress, and there were more things to do.

The next day, Katniss got up early for class. She couldn't be late.

Just as she found a seat in the classroom and took out her books, a girl suddenly stood in front of her desk.

"Are you Katniss?" The voice was cool, with a bit of an edge.

Katniss looked up. The girl in front of her had a kind of dashing coolness, looking down at her with a rather arrogant gaze, like a clear-eyed but foolish little thug.

"Yes, I am," Katniss replied, then lowered her eyes and continued to take out her notebook and pencil case from her bag.

"I declare, from today on, you are my good friend!" Cecilia Thorne extended her hand. "My name is Cecilia Thorne."

After putting her things away, Katniss quietly looked at Cecilia. So, she was Cecilia.

Cecilia had a cousin named Yasmin Thorne.

In Katniss's past life, right after Maximilian passed away, she learned from Desmond that there had been plans for Maximilian to marry into the Thorne family, with Yasmin as the chosen bride. Katniss reached out and shook Cecilia's hand. Seeing Cecilia still standing there, she couldn't help but ask, "Anything else?"

"Aren't you curious why I want to be friends with you?" Cecilia casually pulled up a chair and sat down in front of Katniss. Katniss smirked. "Besides me, who else would want to be friends with you?"

Cecilia was pretty famous on campus, but not for good reasons. She was known for causing trouble and getting into fights. She was the kind of student that gave the school headaches.

The most serious incident was when Cecilia swung a chair and broke someone's head, earning her a disciplinary record. Compared to Katniss's previous low profile, Cecilia had always been living a flamboyant life, leaving a lasting impression.

Cecilia was momentarily stunned, then burst into laughter, slapping the table. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. As long as you don't get along with Nova, we are good friends." Word had it that during a free clinic at the hospital yesterday, Katniss had completely overshadowed Nova, making her cry and run away.

Hearing this news, Cecilia couldn't have been happier, so excited that she couldn't sleep all night.

"You have a grudge against Nova?" Katniss asked.

Cecilia's eyes suddenly turned fierce, and she said through gritted teeth, "Nova used my brother and then dumped him when she found someone better!"

Katniss was shocked and curiously asked, "You have a brother? Why did Nova dump him?"

"What else? She thought my brother was poor. My brother thought women were all about money, so he acted broke to test them," Cecilia said with a look of exasperation.

Cecilia was about to continue when the class bell rang.

"Oh, I have class!" Cecilia jumped up and rushed out, turning back to say, "Wait for me after school. We'll go to the cafeteria together!"

Cecilia was in the art school, studying the cello.

With a full schedule in the morning, Katniss's brain was already overworked by the end of it.

Perhaps the news from the hospital had spread, the teachers seemed to enjoy calling on her during class.

In the four classes that morning, the most frequent one had her called on four times!

Katniss felt that as a new transfer student, she had been quite low-key, but now everyone in the class probably remembered her.

After packing up her books, Katniss slung her backpack over her shoulder and headed to the cafeteria.

Just as she reached the classroom door, she heard her name.

"Hey, is that Katniss from your class the same one who bullied Nova at the hospital yesterday?" a girl asked.

"Yeah, that's her. Today, Katniss was in the spotlight. Every teacher called on her to answer questions. It was like her personal show all morning! I bet she's feeling pretty smug. Also, on her first day of class, she deliberately bothered Cecil by sitting in his designated seat. So shameless!" another girl with pink hair replied.

"Katniss has the face of a troublemaking vixen. She's playing dirty, using sneaky moves to put down Nova and catch Cecil's eye. It makes me sick!" the pink-haired girl continued.

"Now that you mention it, it does seem that way. So disgusting!" the girl said.

Katniss smiled and walked out of the classroom under their shocked and resentful gazes.

"Sorry, am I not supposed to be here?" Katniss said with an innocent look, pretending to be troubled. "It's my first time being called a vixen by a girl. Thank you for the compliment. It's the highest praise for me."