Jonah’s POV

“I was never your mother,” Marlowe says. Her voice carries a jagged, ruined kind of amusement. “I only claimed you so you’d be easy to steer. I took you to make the Sinclairs feel what it’s like to lose someone they love. And I wanted you to grow up knowing what it is to be left behind—just like Jace, made an orphan in a single night.”

She lets out another laugh, ugly and fractured, then leans in as if she’s about to share a ...