You Are My Light (Kaz Brekker x Reader)

Chapter 2

We asked around to see if anyone knew anything about the Fold. The answers we got were far from helpful.

"Here's what I don't get..." Jesper started once we got back to the Crow Club.

"We're going to be here all night." Inej groaned.

"Rude." Jesper defended.

I laughed at this.

"Why haven't they tried going under?" Jesper continued. "Just dig a tunnel."

"Tried that. More than a century ago. Something...heard them digging." Kaz locked a missile onto Jesper's hope and destroyed it. Leaving nothing but ashes that turned to dust when you touched them. It was Kaz's specialty. Destroying hope...in a good way.

"It was made a hundred years ago by that crazy Grisha..." Jesper started.

"The Black Heretic." Inej corrected.

"Yeah, the one who controls shadow. They've got one in their army now. General Kirigan?" Jesper continued. This man–I mean boy–is always getting interrupted.

"Your point, Jes?" I asked.

"Well, if one of his kind made it, can't he unmake it?" Jesper asked.

"Have you ever put out fire with more fire?" I asked.

"No."

"Then you can't get rid of shadow with more shadow."

"Then what's the opposite of this?" Jesper asked. He also asks alot of questions.

"A Sun Summoner." I answered.

"Right, then, one of those."

"Doesn't exist." Kaz blurted.

I looked at him. Seriously?

"Doesn't exist, yet." Inej corrected.

"Dreesen comes into town, doesn't waste a minute. Sends out for a crew to steal something but doesn't specify what. What is it? Is it heavy, large, worth more than a million on the black market? Maybe he doesn't know." Kaz most definitely likes ranting.

"We can let this one go, Kaz." Inej said.

"Hell no!" I argued.

I love crime.

"Sounds like a trap, anyway." Jesper said.

"A trap would sound easy. This is something else." Kaz said.

At least we were on the same page when it came to crime.

"Boss, boss." A man said from the doorway.

"We intercepted a note from Dreesen." The man said before Kaz had a chance to ask.

"Did you, now?" Kaz asked. His face hardened once the man entered the room.

"It's for the owner of the Orchid. Says they require the services of a Heartrender. Tonight."

"A Heartrender? Why?"

"Doesn't say. Just they need it before midnight."

"You don't bring in a Heartrender unless you need an answer out of someone who isn't willing to talk. That's how we get this job before anyone else." I was not following Kaz. "Bring Dreesen a Heartrender." I like how he thinks.

Kaz got up to leave as did I.

"Boss, just one problem." He seemed almost scared to continue. "Pekka Rollins knows."

"Pekka Rollins." Kaz echoed.

Pekka Rollins is Kaz's enemy. The one person he wants to kill most but is just as skilled as he is.