"Would you consider sending Jace with the late Inquisitor safe?" Alec asked dubiously. Inquisitor Herondale had been unhinged and out of her mind. She'd targeted Jace and she'd imprisoned him in both the Silent City cells and then later, in a Malachi Configuration. She'd stopped just short of torturing Jace and he'd let her because he thought he deserved it.

"Whatever reason they had for doing that to Jace isn't good enough," he said, shaking his head. There hadn't been any time to brood about it, confront it, because there'd been Valentine and his demon army to contend with but Alec had not forgiven nor had he forgotten.

"What's to stop them from doing that to me? Or Isabelle or Max? It shouldn't have happened," he said strongly. He blamed himself because he hadn't done more to get Jace out but he blamed his parents most of all.