"Ooh, did you pick those keychains out for you and your girlfriend?" the woman in front of him in line had gestured toward Lillian when she'd said it and there had been a hopefulness in her expression.
Seth hadn't realized when he'd said, "Well, yes, but we're just friends," that he'd get dragged into a conversation with a young woman who was incredibly forward and far too interested in him. Angels are naturally accommodating creatures and, though he'd been trying to steer the woman's attention away from him, back to the shortening line, he'd found a hard time leaving the conversation gently. She was brazen and chatty but a lot of humans were like that. She meant well, even if she was obviously misguided, and he didn't want to hurt her feelings. If he'd known then what he knew now, he
