THESE BROKEN VOWS (Kazbrekker x Fem!reader) [ book version]

CHAPTER 27

A/N ; my noble readers, I have for one request, pls comment on this chapter Lol I rlly need some comedic relief from my wretched highschool life 🤧😭

🧇NINA P.O.V🧇

They emerged from the darkness, soaked, bruised, and gasping in the
bright light of the moon.

Nina's entire body felt as if it had been pummelled.

The remnants of the baleen clustered in sticky gobs at the corners of her mouth.

Her dress had frayed to nearly nothing, and if she hadn't been so desperately, giddily happy to be alive and breathing, she might have worried about the fact that she was standing barefoot and practically naked in the gorge of a northern river, still a mile and a half from the harbour and safety.

In the distance, she could hear the bells of the Ice Court ringing.

A half naked Bhagya pulled out Kuwei from the water, both coughing out the liquid, and Matthias was dragging a limp, unconscious Kaz out of the shallows.

"Saints, is he breathing?" asked Nina.

Matthias flipped him onto his back none too gently and started pressing
down on his chest with more force than was strictly necessary.

"I. Should. Let. You. Die," Matthias muttered in time with his compressions.

Nina crawled over the rocks and kneeled beside them, "Let me help
before you crack his sternum. Does he have a pulse?"

She pressed her fingers to his throat.

"It's there, but it's fading. Get his shirt open."

Matthias helped tear the drüskelle uniform away.

Nina placed one hand on Kaz's pale chest, focusing on his heart and forcing it to contract.

She used the other to pinch his nose shut and push his mouth open as she tried to breathe air into his lungs.

More skilled Corporalki could extract the water themselves, but she didn't have time to fret over her lack of training.

"Will he live?" Kuwei asked.

I don't know.

" I-I, Nina please, tell me he'll live." said Bhagya.

He probably won't.

Nina pressed her lips to Kaz's again, timing her breaths with the beats she demanded of his heart.

Come on, you rotten Barrel thug.
You've fought your way out of tougher scrapes.

"Help me." She gasped to Bhagya, who immediately began focusing on his pulse.

" Come on you bimbo! I need to see you marry Y/N before I die! I've been yearning for it! And I can't have my darling Y/N marry a corpse!" exclaimed Bhagya worriedly.

Nina felt the shift when Kaz's heart took over its own rhythm.

Then he coughed, chest spasming, water spewing from his mouth.