Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake."

"And yours," he said before he could stop himself.

“Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, l…”

“Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.”

“It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls be…”

“Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them…”