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a liar—” “You don’t lie?” Cristina demanded. “You want to know why I left home, Diego? In May we were in San Miguel de Allende. I’d gone to the Jardín, and when I came back, you and Jaime were sitting up on the terrace. I was coming through the courtyard; I could hear your voices very clearly. You didn’t know I was there.” Diego looked puzzled. “I don’t . . .” “I heard him talking to you about how the wrong branch of the Rosales family was in power. It should have been you. He was talking about the plan he had. Surely you remember. The one where you would marry me, and he would become my parabatai, and together you would use your influence over me and my mother to eject her from her position as head of the D.F. Institute, and then you would take over. He said you had the easy job, marrying me, because you could leave me someday. Becoming parabatai means you’re stuck with them forever. I remember him saying that.” “Cristina . . .” Diego had gone pale. “That’s why you left that night. It wasn’t because your mother was sick and needed you at the Institute in the city.” “I was the one who was sick,” Cristina spat. “You broke my heart, Diego, you and your brother. I don’t know what’s worse, losing your best friend or losing the boy you’re in love with, but I can tell you that it was like you both died for me that day. That’s why I don’t pick up your calls or messages. You don’t take calls from a dead boy.” “And what about Jaime?” Something flared in his eyes. “What about his calls?” “He never has called,” said Cristina, and almost took pleasure in the look of shock on his face. “Maybe he has better sense than you.” “Jaime? Jaime?” Diego was on his feet now. A vein in his temple throbbed. “I remember that day, Cristina. Jaime was drunk and he was babbling. Did you hear me say anything or did you only hear him?” Cristina forced herself to think back. In memory it seemed like a cacophony of voices. But . . . “I only heard Jaime,” she said. “I didn’t hear you say a word. Not to defend me. Not to say anything.” “There was no point talking to Jaime when he was like that,” Diego said bitterly. “I let him talk. I shouldn’t have. I had no interest in his plan. I loved you. I wanted to go far away with you. He is my brother, but he is— He was born with something missing, I think, some piece of his heart where compassion lives.” “He was going to be my parabatai,” said Cristina. “I was going to be tied to him forever. And you weren’t going to say anything to me? Do anything to stop it?” “I was,” Diego protested. “Jaime had planned to go to Idris. I was waiting for him to leave. I needed to speak to you when he wasn’t there.” She shook her head. “You shouldn’t have waited.” “Cristina.” He came toward her, his hands outstretched. “Please, if you don’t believe anything else, believe me that I have always loved you. Do you really think I have lied to you since we were children? Since the first time I ever kissed you and you ran away laughing? I was ten years old—do you really think that was some kind of plan?” She didn’t reach for his hands. “But Jaime,” she said. “I’ve known him just as long. He was always my friend. But he wasn’t, was he? He said things no friend would say, and you knew he was using me, and you said not a word.” “I was going to tell you—” “Intentions are nothing,” Cristina said. She had thought she would feel some relief, finally telling Diego why she hated him, finally unburdening the knowledge of what she had heard. Finally severing
the thread. But it didn’t feel severed. She could feel the bond connecting them, as she had when she’d blacked out in the crashing car outside the Institute and woken up with Diego holding her. He’d been whispering in her ear that she would be all right, that she was his Cristina, she was strong. And it had felt for a moment as if the past months had been a dream, and she was home. “I must stay here,” Diego said. “These killings, the Followers, they are too important. I am a Centurion; I cannot abandon a mission. But I do not need to remain at the Institute. If you want me to go away, I will.” Cristina opened her mouth. But before she could speak, her phone buzzed. It was a message from Emma. STOP MAKING OUT WITH PERFECT DIEGO AND GET TO THE COMPUTER ROOM, WE NEED YOU. Cristina rolled her eyes and shoved the phone back in her pocket. “We’d better go.”
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24 BY THE NAME OF ANNABEL LEE 25 TO
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know that. A cluricaun offered to f
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waist. She wore a golden sword stra
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terrifying. They were split into tw
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“It’s just not working out,”
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She missed him horribly, but she su
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thought of starting over, and partl
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Emma sighed. “It’s so hard to b
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When Diana had come to work as the
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“It’s not a wart!” As Emma pu
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anyone had been able to identify to
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Emma leaned in, and Cristina, looki
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up late after staying up nearly all
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Emma crossed her arms defiantly ove
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“I had someone when I was younger
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were still spotted with paint. He w
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The attic of the Institute was dim.
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the attic felt ancient and dusty an
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each other’s beds. There would be
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Everyone knew Jace and Clary. That
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familiar voices. She sped up, a smi
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“I only found out about it the ni
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Emma hit the training mat hard, rol
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“Who’s Perfect Diego?” Livvy
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minded professor type. He had been
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“It’s gotten worse, hasn’t it
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Ty had taken one of his hand toys o
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“Why don’t you have a boyfriend
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At the time Emma hadn’t been able
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“Because he doesn’t want to see
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the split that tore it open, see th
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“A faerie who carries a weapon ca
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He grabbed up the jacket he’d bee
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The inner doors to the Sanctuary we
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Arthur took a shaking breath. His h
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trial for the murder of the fey and
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Sanctuary, and I do not care if the
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wondering if his mind was following
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“No,” Julian said, his voice ge
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“Oh, you have,” she said. “We
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“I could go to Malcolm’s alone,
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“You’re Shadowhunters. It could
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“Some of the bodies were fey,”
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shimmered alive as he approached it
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through the Institute only moments
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An acorn. Cristina’s eyes widened
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She was so close to him he could fe
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could endure it. Julian had thought
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of someone when there was danger. H
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Julian leaned against the table. He
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even try?” “I won’t fight wit
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Emma shouldered open the door to Ju
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he said. “It’s just, I always t
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“Sort of like that.” Emma edged
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“You would have me believe there
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Without another word Emma swung her
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No wonder Jace Herondale had once j
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Emma turned on her heel in a slow c
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Mantid, slid toward the edge of the
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feeling light-headed. In the moonli
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lank look, and then remembered the
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They were all quiet for a moment. T
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“It’s done,” Diana said, toss
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at her. She put the eggs down on th
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Livvy dispatched the dummy with a s
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“Ty is not like Arthur.” Julian
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ook called Danse Macabre in one han
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“I think Ty’s doubled up on his
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twilight now, not quite full dark,
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drowning-blackened face to the nigh
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Emma in a joking way that perhaps s
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“Beautiful,” he said finally.
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phone. “No!” Julian said, force
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was meant to prevent healing magic,
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anyone ever tried to hurt Cristina
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Livvy, and Mark’s plate of strawb
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with my—” “All right, you’v
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oth of his eyes had been Blackthorn
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The Wild hunt, some Years ago Mark
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“What care I?” said Mark, listl
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Emma stood in front of the mirror i
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know it, he likes it.” “Does he
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So it is decreed by Raziel. Sed lex
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“For tonight? First, I am so jeal
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the ocean. Cristina, in the seat ne
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should have been able to fix you. E
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Standing in the marble entryway, Ju
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What if Mark decided not to stay? W
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Emma patted the seat beside her. In
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Smith was, and Cristina stomped on
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thought. She found herself making j
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N-G? But he didn’t seem to notice
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“What are you doing here?” Mark
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“Then take them off me,” Mark m
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threaded tendrils into Downworld an
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never have allowed you in.” “Yo
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“I know you think you can’t tru
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Nephilim, I wonder?” “Sterling
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“I am Julian’s parabatai,” sh
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nearly collided with Cristina outsi
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Julian’s phone pinged. LIVVY SAYS
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Julian thumbed out a response: GO O
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perhaps, was that Ty was looking at
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“You couldn’t have known he had
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It looked as if the kitchen had exp
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their food back up the hill. Julian
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Page 305 and 306: “Where are Tavvy and Dru?” she
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“This is wrong, Malcolm.” Diana
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ounced off the walls, a brutal echo
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one could say that about so much of
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“They told me she’d become an I
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human beings, and the angels despis
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The parabatai curse. The Clave will
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meant that whatever was happening o
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clutching Tavvy tightly). In the di
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to tell us where you disappeared to
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At the sound of Sebastian’s name,
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“So you couldn’t have protected
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“Maybe not,” Jace said. “Do y
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out. He threw on jeans and a T-shir
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inside. Tavvy was curled up half in
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matter what happens,” he barked,
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ody. “I used to read Law books,
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“You made it,” she said. “For
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thought. Sunlight was streaming thr
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the same. She had the same sweet ex
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“Do you think he’ll be all righ
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easier to end someone else’s love
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you don’t love them, or that you
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Julian’s life. I hate to ask you
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