Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)

by Cassandra Clare

The further you push this, Father, the more you, too, will come under scrutiny. Only be sure you can bear such scrutiny of your every action. Most men could not.”

“If it were not for you, my Daisy, I would have belonged to Belial long ago. For there is no one else in this world, my most beautiful, maddening, adorable wife, that I could ever have loved half as much as I have loved you. My heart beats for you,” he said. “Only ever you.”

We are married, and we will remain married, and in love, until the stars burn out of the sky.”

He loves you with a force that cannot be turned aside, or broken, or made small or insignificant.