Crow with a Diamond eye: Kaz Brekker x Reader

chapter 4: Interrogations and heart beats

Y/n stared at the door. Would he know about her secret, apparently other people did. Could she lie? Would he kill her if she did?

She reached up a trembling hand and knocked.

"Come in." Y/n cautiously opened the door, it creaked on its hinges as she did so. Kaz was wearing the same thing as the night before. He was sitting at his desk, head down, writing something on a slip of parchment. He looked up at her as she shut the door. Something flashed in his eyes, sadness maybe, she couldn't tell. Maybe it was just the light.

"Inej" He muttered softly under his breath. He rose from his chair and gestured for her to sit down in the seat in front of his desk, she complied. He stayed standing.

"Your late." He finally said after a too long silence. Y/n looked up at him sheepishly.

"Sorry, I got lost." Kaz nodded.

"Of course, you did. Look Y/n, I need something from you. I need you to make me a person." Y/n felt a chill pass over her body. How did he know?!

"Look Y/n, I know about your little power, either you do what I say, or I give you to the Dime Lions, they've been looking for you and I heard their new leader is less lenient than I am." Y/n's heart was hammering so fast she just knew Kaz could see it moving under her skin.

"I c-can't" Her voice cracked; tears brimmed in her eyes.

"I can't make you a person." Kaz's eyebrow quirked upward.

"And why not?" Y/n shook her head.

"I just can't. Send me to the Dime Lions, they won't get me to make one either! It's impossible."

Kaz slammed the butt of his cane on the ground, causing a ringing sound to echo off the walls.

"But you did, didn't you? So, it's not impossible is it." Y/n rose from her chair, hands raised. Kaz backed into the wall, cane brandished like a sword.

"If you kill me the Dregs will hunt you down, I promise they will not make your death fast."

Kaz spat. Y/n dropped her hands. She could feel his heartbeat slow. She didn't know if it was beating fast on its own or if she had sped it up.

"I'm not going to kill you, I'm not a killer, not like you." Kaz was breathing hard as she turned to leave.

"Wait Y/n." She faced Kaz once again.

"If you leave, you'll be out in the barrel alone, wanted with no money and no way back to Ravka. The Dregs are your best shot. Take it or leave it, one job and I'll get you back, free of cost."

Y/n looked into his hate filled eyes, not hate for her as she had first suspected, but hate for the world and whatever it did to him.

"Ok then, what's the job."