She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable. "Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.
Cassandra ClareMagnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.
Cassandra ClareIโm really grateful to you for saving us, Maia, and Jace is too, even though heโs so stubborn that heโd rather jam a seraph blade through his eyeball than say so. And donโt you say you hope he does,โ she added hastily, seeing the look on the other girlโs face, โbecause thatโs really not helpful.
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