"...all ended with her eyes, hell, purgatory, paradise."
Book one: She's no angel, he's no saint.
Book two: Half my soul.
Book three: Dark paradise.
Book four: Tattered wings.
Kaz Brekker had always manipulated people by using love, he used Nina's love for Matthias, he used Matthias love for Nina, he used Jan Van Eck love for his unborn heir. But then love was being used against him with Aeolian; when Van Eck had kidnapped her, when Nikolai had used love on him to steal the titanium. She'd stole the thief's heart, right under his nose.
"I don't know if you deserve her but for some reasons, she thinks you do." The Shu man had told him when he handed Kaz the sealed envelope, which contained a lock of hair from the Shu princess.
It's been almost two years now since Aeolian had left Ketterdam. But till date, every morning at sunrise he'd go to Fifth Harbour in hope that he'd see her ship at Berth twenty-two.
"That berth belongs to you too. It will always be there if you want to come back." He'd told her back then when he'd gifted her, her very own ship.
"I don't know what to say, Kazuki." She'd replied.
"Say you'll return." He said.
"I'm not done with Ketterdam." She told him.
That time, Kaz Brekker didn't know what she meant by that but after she left. He'd got the information that—the Shu princess had sneaked into the hideout of Pekka Rollins in the middle of the night, carving the initial 'J' on his chest and threatened him to never return to Ketterdam or face her wrath.
The king of the barrel was so petrified that he packed his bags and his men and fled right after, never to be heard of again. Kaz knew she was a dangerous girl but never thought, she'd go to that extent to threaten Rollins'. He felt intimidated and extremely proud of her as well. If she'd never left the barrel, by now she'd be the Empress of the barrel.
The Shu princess was born with a great purpose, she was born to rule. She was born to bring men to their knees, to burn kingdoms down. Kaz knew it all too well.
She won't break you like those other girls will. That's exactly why he's terrified of her. She could make him happy. And he know being happy is the most terrifying thing in the universe. Once he's happy, it can be taken from him.
He was a warrior with a fighter's mind and she was a battle he lost every time.
And every time he thinks of her, he smiles but his heart hurts like hell. Because he might never see her again, but he'd choose her happiness over his every time. Never before had he wanted to say so much, but said so little, felt so much but stayed so silent.
But she's not his. He don't think she could ever be anyone's. She doesn't want to be owned. That's what he love most about her.
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