Guest who wants Clary to not be too smug: Thank you for your review. I don't want Clary to be a bitter smug person either. But I want is to show Jace that she is not scared of anyone and has a great self confidence. Also to let him know she hates him and has not forgiven him YET. To show this she has to show some hatred to him and smugness. This will make jace work harder for forgiveness.

Guest who wants Clary to marry for the PR- I can do that. That will be another reason why clary should do it. As for making her sexy, just wait until she starts working with Jace.

The wedding will not be right away. Jace and Clary have to act like they like each other in public. We don't want the press to figure out why they are doing this.

Clary POV

I was sitting on the hammock in the back yard after the conversation with my dad, reading the contract. It basically said, Jace has to train me and I have to supply him with whatever financial need he wants to run his company. The end of this contract will be when Jace and I both decide if I am capable of running the company yet. And if not, he trains me till I am ready. Jace has to return quarter of the given money.

Then there are some conditions/rules Jace has placed. Such as, no phones while he's training me. I have to listen to him and do what he tells me. Yeah, right. One said, 'NO DUCKS NEAR ME!' Well, then. I'll keep that in mind.

I flipped to the next page and read the title. I frowned and read the title again. What the fuck…?

"DAD!" I yell and storm in his study. To my surprise, Jace is still there.

"Yes, Clary?" Dad asks.

"What the fuck is this?!" I throw the file in front of him. He furrows his brows and look up at me, confused.

I groan and say, "What is this 'Contract Marriage' ? And why does it say mine and Jace's name?"

"Clary," Dad sighs and continues, "I want you to sit down and listen."

I sit down and my leg is furiously going up and down.

"As you know, Jace has a bit of a reputation around here. No company wants to partner up with him because of his behavior and even with us helping him, financially, his company will still not do good."

"Okay, so what is this marriage thing?" I ask glaring at Jace. It is not my fault that his reputation is like this. I remember once, he was on the news for being an ass to his clients. Apparently, he was hungover and he didn't like what they were asking for and he snapped. It was a pretty big project for their company. The client, told the press about his behavior and how rude he was. After that, no one wanted to deal with his company.

"I want you to marry Jace." Uh. Say what?

"Excuse me?" I ask. My mouth open. This is not real. I will not marry this pig.

"I want you to marry Jace," he repeated. "It will be good for his reputation, people will think he has changed and he will change. You can keep him in check. It is good PR, it will benefit both of the companies." He says, encouragingly.

I look at him and say one word, "No." and leave.

Jace POV:

After Clary left, Valentine took a deep breath and said, "I am sorry. It's just I don't know…"

"It's okay. I'll talk to her." I get up and leave the study. I walked around the house trying to find Clary. I walk up the stairs and find a long hallway. I took a wild guess and opened a door that I thought was Clary's room.

"Clary…?" I walked into the room, tentatively.

The room was big and messy. Light was pouring through the big windows. On one side of the room, were art things. The bed was made and had purple bedding. I walked over to the canvas and looked at the unfinished painting. It was a Wolf, howling into the moon. It was simple but with complicated designs making it look mesmerizing.

"What are you doing here?" I hear a quite voice say behind me. I turn around to see Clary. She has changed and was wearing grey short shorts and a pink Adidas with white crocs.

I raise my eyebrow at her and she looks at me. "What?"

"Uh. Nothing. I just want to talk." I say hesitantly.

"Jace. Please. I don't want to," she says and turn around and walk into her closet. I couldn't help but stare at her behind. Her ass has filled out nicely, I thought. Jace. Focus.

"Please, Clary. Your dad is worried you know." I tell her and she walks out of her closet with some paint brushes.

When she didn't say anything, I continued, "Clary, thank you for agreeing to help me. It means a lot. I know after everything I did to you, you doing this is seriously very generous."

"Jace, I am not doing this to you. I am doing this for my dad. I have no interest in helping you. At all. So you can just stop." She says coldly.

Well then. Fair enough. I mean I know she doesn't like me and will not really forgive me that easily. But still. I really appreciate her doing this.

"Oh. Well still. Thanks," I tell her.

She scoffs and says, "As for the marriage," she looks at me. "that's not happening."

"What is your problem?! You make it seem like marrying me is the worst thing ever! How many times do I have to tell you, I am changed. I regret everything I did!" I snap at her. I didn't mean to but it just happened. I am sick of her making me look like the bad guy here.

Wait. I mean, I kinda am.

"What is my problem?" she asks disbelievingly. "What is my problem! You are my problem. Marrying you is the worst thing ever. You are an ass! Do you really think I will marry a fucker like you?!" she yells.

"How many times do I have to tell you? I. HATE. You. You have ruined my life Jace!"

I look up at the ceiling and I want to scream.

"I know that you hate me. I know. I don't want to marry you either," Lier. "It's only for publicity and to improve my reputation. And the contract said it's onl-" I stopped talking because there was a loud noise and then someone yelled, "VAL!"

Clary and I ran downstairs to see Valentine at the end of the stairs, unconscious.

"DAD!" Clary yells and flies down the stairs.

"What happened?" I ask picking him up and taking him to my car. Jocelyn and Clary followed me.

"Where are you taking him?!" Clary yells.

"To the moon! Really? Where do you think, Clary?" I snap at her. Again.

She huffs and sits in the back with Valentine and I drive to the hospital.

"It was a close call. Your dad is lucky. A fall like that," the doctor shook his head. "Anyways, he will be okay."

"Yeah but what caused the fall? We don't know if he tripped or fainted or…" Jocelyn said.

"Mr. Morgenstern's stress levels are too high. His blood pressure was too high and that's why he fainted and fell." The doctor explained. "I am guessing there is something that is bothering him."

"Will he be okay, Doc?" Luke asked.

"Yes. We have put him in a coma, so he can rest and doesn't stress that much." The doctor excuses himself and Jocelyn sits down in a chair. Head in her hands. Luke tries to calm her down and Clary has walked off somewhere.

I walk to the nurses station and look around trying to find her when a small, curvy nurse approaches me.

"Looking for something?" she says in a flirty tone. Now me being me flirted back.

"Uh, yeah I am," I say leaning against the desk.

"Oh yeah, what are you looking for?" She walked closer to me.

I smirked and said, "I am looking for someone. Someone with silky brown hair," I took a piece of her hair and twirled it around my fingers. "Someone with blue eyes. Someone who's name is," I lean closer to her and looked at her name tag. "Ashley." She smiles at me and puts are arms around my neck.

"Oh really?" she says seductively. I was about to reply when I caught red. I look behind the nurse and saw Clary, standing there with her arms crossed. When she saw me looking, she shook her head and walked away.

"Clary!" I yell and push the nurse away and run after Clary. She was in the garden of the Hospital.

"Clary," I was breathing heavily and she was sitting on a swing, her back facing me.

"Go away, Jace." She says. Her voice broke a little which meant she was crying.

"Clare…talk to me," I say gently and walk in front of her. Clary had her head down. I gently push her face up and look at her. She had tears in her eyes and it broke my heart to see her like this.

"Jace, just leave. Just go back to that girl or home. It's not like you care," she says silently.

Instead of leaving, I sit next to her and hold her hand. She doesn't pull away so that's a good thing.

We sit in silence for good 5 minutes and then Clary whispers, "It's all my fault," I stay quiet and let her talk. "I am the reason of this. Dad is stressed because of me. I caused all of this." She starts to cry harder.

"Clary," I take her face in my hands. "Hey, look at me. It's not your fault."

"Yes it is!" she turns her face around. "If I hadn't walked off form his office like that, he wouldn't have been stressed. I should've just said yes to this stupid marriage and all of this wouldn't have happened. I am so stupid. I am the worst daughter ever." She keeps rambling so I pull her into a hug.

I rock us both gently and whisper sweet nothings in her ear. When she starts to calm down, I start talking.

"I know you don't like me Clary and I know you don't want to do this. I don't want to either. And I get why. But none of this is your fault. Your dad is just worried about you. He wants you to be happy and even he doesn't want to burden you like this. He loves you a lot Clary and he is proud of you. Trust me, he is. He always talk about how successful you are.

"I am proud of you as well. You are a brilliant artist and I am sure you will be great CEO. As for this marriage, it's only an act," at this she looks up at me with wide eyes.

"You- you read the contract right?" I ask her.

"Uh only some of it." I groan.

"Clary, we only have to be married till you become the CEO. Unless you don't want to get the divorce," I raise my eyebrow at her and smirk. She looks away. I really hope we don't get a divorce.

"I know you don't want this wedding but think about it like this, your dad gets to walk you down the aisle. I know it will be a 'fake' marriage but still."

"I guess you are right. I mean it can't be that bad." She says, distractedly.

"Right. I am always right." I smirk at her and she smacks my chest.

"Okay. Okay, just read the contract and if you want to change anything come to me. Not your dad." She nods and I walk closer to her. She starts to back away from me.

"Jace. What are you doing?" she asks walking backwards. I keep walking towards her until she has to stop because she is out of room.

I lean in towards her and bring my arms around her. I drag them down to her behind. And grab.

Her phone out of her back pocket. She relaxes and then tenses.

"Hey that's my phone!"

"I know. Open it." I hold it out in front of her and she hesitantly opens it.

I add my number in her phone and it give it back to her.

She looks at her phone and raises her eyebrow at me.

"Really? You saved yourself as Prince Charming?" she shakes her head.

"Yeah I couldn't decide between that or hot shot." She laughs and I smile at her.

I always want her to laugh like that. I will make sure she will always laugh like this.

Let me know if you like it. Next chapter will be Clary telling her decision to her dad. Leave a review.