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

CHAPTER 29

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✨Y/N P.O.V✨

They’d been blessed with a strong wind.

Y/N felt it ripple through her hair and couldn’t help but think of the storm to come.

As soon as they were on deck, Matthias and Inej had turned to Kuwei.

“How long do they have?”

Kuwei had some Kerch, but Nina had to translate in places.

She did it distractedly, her glittering eyes roving over everyone and everything.

“The high will last one hour, maybe two. It depends how long it takes their bodies to process a dose of that size.”

“Why can’t Nina just purge it from her body like the bullets?” Matthias
asked Kuwei desperately.

“It doesn’t work,” said Kuwei. “Even if she could overcome the craving for long enough to start purging it from her body, she’ll lose the ability to
pull the parem from her system before it’s all gone. You’d need another Corporalnik using parem to accomplish it.”

Should I help?

“What will it do to them?” asked Wylan.

“You’ve seen for yourself,” Matthias replied bitterly. “We know what’s
going to happen.”

Kaz crossed his arms, “How will it start?”

“Body aches, chills, no worse than a mild illness,” Kuwei explained.“Then a kind of hypersensitivity, followed by tremors, and the craving.”

“Do you have more of the parem?” Matthias asked.

“Yes.”

“Enough to get them back to Ketterdam?”

“I won’t take more,” Nina protested.

“Neither will I.” Shuddered Bhagya.

“I have enough to keep you both comfortable,” Kuwei said. “But if you take a second dose, there is no hope at all.” He looked to Matthias and Inej. “This is their one chance. It’s possible her body will purge enough of it naturally that addiction won’t set in.”

“And if it does?”

Kuwei held out his hands, part shrug, part apology.

“Without a ready supply of the drug, she’ll go mad. With it, her body will simply wear itself out. Do you know the word parem? It’s the name my father gave to the drug. It means ‘without pity’.”

When Nina finished translating, there was a long pause.

“I don’t want to hear any more,” she said. “None of it will change what’s coming.”

She drifted away towards the prow with Bhagya.

Matthias and Inej watched her go.