kanej quotes that make me go mental
Sheβd often wished to chip away a bit of his arrogance, but she couldnβt bear the idea of seeing Kaz stripped of his pride.
One minute he made her blush and the next he made her want to commit murder.
What do you want, then?
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordieβs voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.
Speak, she begged silently. Give me a reason to stay. For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was still the boy who had saved her. She wanted to believe he was worth saving, too.
She would have her ship and he would have his city.
βI would have come for you. And if I couldβt walk, Iβd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, weβd fight our way out together - knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because thatβs what we do. We never stop fighting.β
βI can hear the change in Kazβs breathing when he looks at you.β
βYouβ¦ you can?β
βIt catches every time, like heβs never seen you beforeβ
Sheβd laughed and if he could have bottled the sound and got drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.
Kaz had taught her to crack a safe, pick a pocket, wield a knife. Heβd gifted her with her first blade, the one she called Sankt Petyr - not as pretty as wild geraniums, but more practical, she supposed.
He needed to tell herβ¦ what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldnβt pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, heβd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near.
It was as if once Kaz had seen her, heβd understood how to keep seeing her.