"His face is right in front of mine, his breath warm and delicious against my lips as he says, "'I can handle you.'" I simply duck under his arm and say, "'We shall see.'" Clary is trained for this, to be the perfect woman, and maybe the perfect wife. It's her job, what she was born into and what she has been raised to do. But CAN she do it? Futuristic Clary/Jace.