The Bane Chronicles 1: What Really Happened in Peru by Sarah Rees Brennan Cassandra Clare Read Free Book Online Page A

said. “How do you feel about a life of magical crime?”
    “Sounds like an adventure,” said Magnus. “But promise me something. Promise we will always steal from the irritating and spend the cash on booze and useless trinkets.”
    Kitty pressed a kiss to his mouth. “I swear.”
    They fell in love, not even for a mortal lifetime but for a mortal summer, a summer of laughing and running and being wanted by the law in several different countries.
    In the end Magnus’s favorite memory of that summer was an image he had never seen: that last picture on Geoffrey’s camera, of a man trailing bright colors and a woman hiding them beneath a white blouse, both smiling because they knew a joke he did not.
    Magnus’s sudden turn to a life of crime, shockingly enough, was not the reason he was banned from Peru either. The High Council of Peruvian warlocks met in secret, and a letter was sent to Magnus several months later announcing that he had been banned from Peru, on pain of death, for “crimes unspeakable.” Despite his inquiries, he never received an answer to the question of what he had been banned for. To this day, whatever it is that actually got him banned from Peru is—and perhaps must always remain—a mystery.



Also by Cassandra Clare
    THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS
    City of Bones
    City of Ashes
    City of Glass
    City of Fallen Angels
    City of Lost Souls
    THE INFERNAL DEVICES
    Clockwork Angel
    Clockwork Prince
    Clockwork Princess

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