This chapter is short, but I'll update faster, I hope the next chapter will be up today. Hope you like it.
Clary POV
"When I was little my dad and mom loved each other a lot, we were the pitch perfect family. Then my father's parents died and he got really violent, he would stay in his room and whenever we did come out he treated us like crap. My mother and father eventually got a divorce," I stopped and sucked in some air watching Jace. He looked as normal as ever, as if I was telling him a bedtime story, so I continued. "When my parent got a divorce I went with my dad and my brother went with my mom. I was five when this happened. For three years I lived with my dad, in till my mom found out about everything that happened in the house and called social services. I went with my mom and brother to live with them for ever, at least till I move out and get my own place. A year after I left my dad died in jail, gang fight they say." I knew I wasn't telling the whole story, but I had to stop. Jace looked slightly confused.
"Clary, what happened in the house? What made your dad go to jail?" He asked me. I looked down at my hands, feeling a tear slip down my cheek, not daring to look Jace in the eyes.
"My, my father, he would beat me every day, punch me, slap me and kick me. When he got home from work, when he woke up. He took out all his anger on me, I came home to my mom full of cuts and bruises. He always told me that to love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed." I was crying now. I knew I couldn't stop myself. "I-I-I'm sorry Jace, you don't want to know this. You probably think this makes me the weakest person you know. You should le-leave." I was still crying, my vision blurry from the tears. I felt him put his hand on my chin, making me look up at him.
"Clary, it's okay, you're safe." He said as he wiped the tears off my face with his thumb. He lifted me up into his lap and I hid my face in his chest. "It's doesn't make you weak. It makes you the strongest person I know." I looked up at him.
"Re-really?" I ask.
"Yes, and Clary, god I probably have the worst timing, but I can't hide it anymore," He wasn't making eye contact with me so I got worried.
"Jace, what is it? You're scaring me." Hearing this he looked me in the eye. His gold eyes drawing me closer.
"Clary, I love you. I want to spend my life with you, protect you; I want to be your boyfriend, but for real." I stared at him. Jace Herondale just told me he loved me. He wiped the remaining tears off my face. I stopped crying. I knew what I felt for him, I just had to tell him.
"Jace," I said. "I- I love you too."
So I know short chapter, but I wanted to leave it open like that. Since this chapter is so short I'll update soon. I hope today. Remember to review. I'll probably update faster that way. Anyway tell me what you think!
-Sav