" She turned back to Jace. " Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable." Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. " Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y. "