The Trouble With Wanting
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“Kaz.” She was frustrated at his self-deprecation. “Please understand. My mind wants you. My heart longs for you. My body…” She struggled for words, the shame rising again, threatening her eyes with tears. “My body isn’t entirely convinced something horrible isn’t going to happen again. This wasn’t because of you. You understand that, don’t you?”
Inej begins to reckon with her own armor so she can have what, and who, she wants.
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- Part 1 of The Trouble With Wanting
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He could sense her urgency rising, the desperation with which she began to pull him to her body, to weave her fingers into his hair, and it would have been easy to break, to let her have her way with him again. But they had a deal. And Kaz Brekker never made a deal he didn’t keep.
Kaz Brekker is not a useless podge who mopes and stews over his personal problems. Kaz Brekker makes deals. Kaz Brekker enforces. Kaz Brekker stays twenty steps ahead. (Or that’s at least what he tells himself.)
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- Part 2 of The Trouble With Wanting
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A sea captain required a clear view. A heart required aim to land true. She was trying her best, really. But these damn crosswinds could really fuck things up.
From a reader's request: Inej hates struggling with self-esteem and body issues after her time in the Menagerie. Especially when the emotional baggage tends to ruin moments with Kaz.
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- Part 3 of The Trouble With Wanting
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Inej’s breath grew ragged – how many nights at sea had she imagined having his hands on her like this? Desire spread like wildfire through her veins, pooling between her legs as she rolled her hips against his.
The morning after a difficult first night in Kaz's bed brings a number of surprises, both good and terrible.
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- Part 4 of The Trouble With Wanting
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“I thought I had defeated this,” he said, after a long silence.
“The past can be tricky like that,” Inej replied. The dawn was golden over the tile rooftops of Ketterdam. “It has teeth, and sometimes it demands attention.”A fresh surge of firepox rages through Ketterdam, forcing Kaz and Inej into battle with the darkest of Kaz's demons.
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- Part 5 of The Trouble With Wanting
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The Trouble With Wanting More by A_nonnie_mouse
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
05 Apr 2022
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And despite everything, despite how terribly awry all of those schemes had gone, here they were – here she was, still in his arms, asking him what he wanted. The answer until now had always been the same.
What do you want, Kaz?
You, Inej, you.
Except now that answer was no longer enough. Without meaning to, he’d trapped her beneath the weight of this expectation, this belief that she was all he could ever need. Now Inej needed him to want more – to want something else, too. Something that wouldn’t leave him staring at the ceiling, drowning under visions of a cruel and bitter future.
Kaz pulls himself into some semblance of a man for her.
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- Part 6 of The Trouble With Wanting