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“The love card.”
“There’s something about you that’s so—”
“You want me to hold your hand?”
“If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
He reached out, and she felt the back of his hand brush her cheek; she realized her eyes were slipping shut.
“I like the dress,”
She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparkling pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm and heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was slightly uneven too.
“There are demons in the White House?”
Well...
“But she’s so beautiful.” “So are you,”
“Just kissing?” Jace’s tone mocked her with its false hurt. “How swiftly you dismiss our love.”
“Because I see the way you look at him!”
ignoring the kick of adrenaline the sight of her produced.
He brushed a lock of her hair back from her forehead absently, as if unaware he was doing it.
why is it that the first thought in my mind when I saw Abbadon wasn’t for my fellow warriors but for you?”
But all I could think about was you….”
He bent his head forward, so their foreheads touched.
They were close enough to kiss. And still he held her tightly, as if nothing could reassure him that she was real. “Clary,” he said. “What’s happening to me?”
He caught her as she flung herself at him. His arms wrapped tightly around her.
His voice was angry, but the gaze that swept her face, the fingers that gently brushed her hair back, were tender. She had never seen him look like this; there was a sort of fragility about him, as if he might be not just touched but hurt, even.
“Because she loves you,”
what he had been whispering before, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.
But you made me feel like I belong.”
“You don’t have to tell me good things about your mother,” he added. “I already know them.” “Do you?” He shrugged slightly. “She raised you, didn’t she?”
