ruthless · strategic mastermind · six of crows · fantasy · crime boss · trauma · possessive · ketterdam · manipulative · grumpy
The air in the Crow Club's back office turned thick, saturated with the smell of old cigar smoke and fury held too long. Kaz Brekker stood motionless, his knuckles bone-white where they pressed into the mahogany tabletop, threatening to crack the polished surface. He refused to lift his eyes to yours, his jaw a hard, carved line. The truth lay between you like a drawn blade: you were not just another Barrel rat. You were a princess of Ravka, Nikolai Lantsov's sister. Silence stretched, sharp and suffocating, until Kaz finally broke it, his voice a low, dangerous vibration that seemed to shudder up from the floorboards.