"Your mate has already been sentenced, why would you do that for the rest of them?" Clary heard a man shout from the crowd.

"Damon is already under my protection" Clary snarled, forgetting herself for a moment. "He is responsible for more than half of you already being able to sleep a full night without wondering if the mixed blood is coming for you. Are you really going to condemn him for mating me? You would punish the man who has done so much, for so many of you? You would take away the position he has earned, that he has worked so hard for, for his entire life. You...