He frowned down at me, as if our positions were reversed and he was the parent disappointed with a willful child. “Of course not. You’re not to be hurt in any of this.” I raised my eyebrows as I cast my mind back to when I’d believed I was human. I could still taste the fear from some of those moments, and it was worse now that I knew he was behind them all. “Oh? What about the imps throwing me off a roof?" His face darkened, his eyebrows pulling down into a fierce glower. “They were not supposed to do that, and the ones involved were punished for it.” His words confirmed that he really was behind it all from the beginning. "And the gargoyles trying to kill me in Lucifer's library? Or the dragons attacking me in the Grand Canyon?” He waved a dismissive hand. "They were merely trying to

