Chapter 245

[Cordelia]

I wish the moment with Magnus had been a terrible dream. A nightmare that I could wake from.

But life is not that generous. It seems it is my fate to lose my family over and over again.

"Somebody drugged you," Atlas tells me as he sits by my bed, explaining what had happened over the last three days. "And they used the drug that almost killed you before. Thankfully, those doses are completely out of your system because...damn it."

Between Jasper disappearing and me almost dying, Atlas is a mess. I can tell by his rumpled appearance that he has not left my side.

Whatever Magnus had given me, that "mild sedative," put me in a coma for three days.

Maybe he was trying to kill me, only slowly, like he's doing with Jasper, to force our hand in finding the cure.

Then why doesn't he want me to tell Atlas? Wouldn't he get the cure quicker if Atlas knew that was the condition for releasing our son?

And then it strikes me--the one time he went to a Steele for their cure, they died to