Tessa sleeps through the entire next day, waking up late in the evening when Sophie arrives in her room. Sophie warns Tessa that Will “isn’t someone you should care for [...] he isn’t to be trusted, to be relied on” (296). Tessa checks on Nate, who is still sleeping. Jessamine has been watching over him. She shares her plan to woo Nate so that he will marry her and take her away from the Shadowhunters. Jessamine sends Tessa downstairs to talk with Charlotte, but Tessa overhears Charlotte, Jem, and Will arguing and decides to eavesdrop. 

Will argues that Brother Enoch should probe Nate’s mind for information about de Quincey, and then the Shadowhunters should send Nate away to a mundane hospital. Jem pushes back, but Will continues challenging Charlotte, blaming her and Henry for the Phosphor malfunction during the mission. Tessa interrupts their argument and yells at Will for his disregard for Nate’s wellbeing and for using her ability to infiltrate the vampires: “You wanted to use me—just like the Dark Sisters did [...]. You behave as if I have some responsibility to your world, your laws, and your Accords, but it’s your world, and you’re the ones meant to govern it.