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Chapter 8: Clary's Dirty Secret (1,4K)

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"You idiotic blond! Why don't you pick up the phone? I'm leaving this island of freaks! You better call me back before I take the plane!" Clary angrily seethed at her phone, before shoving it in her pocket and staring into the blue ocean reflecting the full moon shining.

With temper, she sat on the white sand, determined to wait for the morning boat so she could get the Hell away from this place. Sure it was a beautiful place with paradisiac views, but it was well known that every garden had its serpents, and this was no exceptions.

She still couldn't believe this whole situation she had found herself into. Aline had explained to her why Jace had married her, and how they had happily lived in that open couple ever since. But all Clary could hear was the fact that Jace had perfectly known from the beginning that he was free, and yet, he still let her believe that she was the other woman. This was just sick, and she would no longer take part in it.

For hours, she blindly looked at the waves coming and going on the shore while the sun lazily rose in the sky in front of her. Still, she must have fallen asleep at some point because she was suddenly awakened by a horn blown away by the approaching boat. She shot up on her feet, gathering her bag and waiting for the boat to dock.

But before she could make her way there, someone tapped her shoulder, making her jump out of fright. She turned, only to see Jace looking at her with concern. "what are you doing here?"

"I'm—" She was cut off by the second horn, announcing that the boat had decked, and so she decided that she would not even give him the satisfaction of talking to him.

She turned on her heels, her head high and did her best to walk with dignity to the boat, no matter how difficult it was to do so on the sand. Of course, Jace and his long legs caught up with her within seconds, holding her arm to make her stop and making her glare at him.

"Are you leaving?"

"Something wrong, little one?" Third voice intervened, and no matter her surprise to hear this voice, Clary couldn't help but fondly smile as she turned her head and saw her brother standing behind her.

She snatched her arm away from Jace's grip, and jumped in Jon's arms, hugging him tightly, even though she could tell that he was eyeing Jace behind her with his infamous death stare. During their younger years in school, Jon had never been known to be the cool older brother who didn't care who dated his sister. On the contrary. But to be fair, she had been the same about his girlfriends as well, making their lives living hell if she judged that they were not worthy of her brother.

"Do I need to —" Jon started, his eyes never leaving Jace once their embrace was stopped. But Clary simply shook her head and took her brother's arm.

"No, it's okay, Jon. Let's go somewhere else."

Jace watched her taking her Jon away as he clenched his fists hard. All morning long he had looked for her in the stupidly too big villa and now that he had found her, it was only for her to be ripped away by that man to whom she had already professed her love to.

Clary dragged her brother on the other side of the island where she finally allowed him to put his bag down.

"What are you doing here? I tried to call you, but your stupid face didn't answer."

"Yeah, I listened to the voicemail. You know me, I heard that something was off in your voice, so I jumped in the first plane … After eating the pancakes," he teased, making her friendly punch his arm for taunting her with one of her favourite food.

After she rested her head on his shoulder, they stayed silent for a while, Clary perfectly aware that her brother was waiting for her to tell him what was upsetting her. She would never be able to tell him how much she appreciated that he was always there for her when she was feeling down, even though she knew that it went both ways.

With a little sigh, she finally let her brother know about the madness going on in the villa, "You remember when I went to Roma with Simon? I 'met' someone there. Turns out he's Seb's brother-in-law."

"And?"

"It's Jace. The guy you saw. He only married Aline because she's in the closet and she's too afraid to step up to her parents. But I learnt that only a few hours ago. Before he ... was strongly insinuating things about us, all the while knowing that I'd feel bad about it."

Jon stayed silent for a while, while Clary was waiting for a verdict. She knew that her brother never believed in her and Sebastian, and she knew that he never thought of her as that sweet innocent girl her parents still believed she was. But, no matter what, she still had some decency, and Jon knew that as well.

"Do you want me to show him how Morgenstern's deal with that kind of troubles?"

"You're going to sue him?" Clary joked, refereeing to their parents' way of handling any situation, given the fact that they were both hotshot lawyers.

"No. I meant the young generation," Jon rectified, his face hard.

She chuckled along with him and shook her head no. She knew that they both had quite a temper that their parents didn't really approve of, but they were like that. You could do anything to them as long as you didn't touch their family. Jon and she had gotten countless times in the principal office because of fights during their school years.

"He seemed quite into you though," Jon commented, reflecting back of his encounter with Seb's brother in law.

"What-ever Jon."

"No, listen to me. Let's screw with his mind."

Clary sat up straight, interested by the idea, but not seeing how she could do that. Jace was the one who always screwed with her mind ... in order to screw her.

"If I'm right, I saw jealousy in his eyes. Don't tell him who I am, I'll stay longer than expected and make his head implode of jealousy."

"May I need to remind you that you're my ... brother! This seems —"

"Come on! I might actually write a book about it. Clary & Jace, or how to screw someone's head. Even better, Clace, or how to screw with someone's head!"

Jon started laughing at that and Clary couldn't help but join him in his laughter. Then they stood up and she brought him to the humongous villa, making him whistle at it. Once they were there, they saw someone they had completely forgotten in the equation of their devious plan. Sebastian.

"Jon! What are you doing here man?" The young man exclaimed, thrilled to see his friend's brother.

"I heard about you guys, so of course I came for the little one."

Clary stuck her tongue to her brother and the three of them went to the living room where they found Aline and Jace in a deep conversation. On their way there, Jon told Sebastian to play along with whatever he would say. Once in the living room, Clary felt Jace's gaze on her, but she refused to look at him, stubbornly staring at her brother.

"Who's that Seb?" Aline asked with her kind and polite voice. Jon stepped forward and presented his hand to Aline as he said,

"I'm Jon. Clary's dirty secret."

Jace watched Clary turn to red as Aline dumbfoundedly shook Jon's hand, and then he paid more attention to the man. He could have easily passed for Sebastian's brother. They had the same height, the same pale blond hair, the same musculature. The only big difference was the eyes. Jon's eyes were bright green, like Clary's.

Then Jon curtly nodded in Jace's direction before wrapping his arm around Clary's waist and whispering something in her ear, even though loud enough for everyone to hear, asking where was her room. Jace shockingly saw Clary smile with her whole face before she led him out of the room.

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