“Considering how much trouble you two were already dodging? You kind of didn’t need me making both of you a bigger target. I’ve already got enough people hacked off at me, angel and pagan alike. If I showed up on your doorstep, they’d have followed.”

Not that he didn’t want to see Sam, to talk to him and tell him what he’d done and why. But given what he was dealing with? Distance seemed far safer.

Gabriel picks at the label on the bottle. “It’s not the easiest spell to put together. There are a lot of moving parts and it took time to get it working. Besides, you would have said no."