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other, and I don’t want to be cruel here. We still need each other. I still need you, otherwise I wouldn’t be here. Your inner wolf, and you, will be just as hurt as I will if we avoid each other completely. What I’m suggesting is that we take it easy for a bit, and come together only when we absolutely need to. I don’t really want my wife watching me in bed with another man. Anyone, for that matter. I don’t want to make her worse, but it will make me go a little crazy if I can’t at least see you from time to time, even if we aren’t having sex.”
    Trevor wanted to argue that she had already seen them together if she had been haunting him. He wanted to say that maybe she was the reason for Phillip’s inability to move on, and not the other way around.
    But then he would be placing blame on a dead woman and fighting with Phillip about something that the man would never see Trevor’s side on.
    “Okay,” he said, setting his mouth in a firm line and then biting down on his lips to keep himself from saying things that he shouldn’t.
    “Okay?” Phillip asked.
    “Yes, it’s okay,” Trevor snapped, and he clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug painfully into his palms.
    “Trevor, I―”
    “You should go,” Trevor said, glancing over his shoulder and then quickly looking away. “I’m tired. I’m probably going to bed.”
    More likely he was going to sneak out and go running in wolf form just to get away from the stress. He didn’t want Phillip knowing that, and he didn’t want the man to follow him.
    Or to look at his face and see how close Trevor was to crying. His eyes burned, and his throat was closing. It hurt to breathe as the tightness inside just got worse and worse with each second Phillip stared at his back.
    He finally heard the ease of the springs and cushions of the couch as Phillip got to his feet.
    Leave. Please leave.
    Phillip must’ve finally turned on his heel, because then his footsteps sounded as he walked down the hall toward the door, collected his shoes, and then he was gone.
    The first thing Trevor did was release a sigh as the door closed. He stood there for a minute longer, letting the tense muscles in his body relax. It was harder than it should have been, and his body was still twitchy afterward.
    He walked to his room. He was more than certain that none of his roommates had heard his conversation with Phillip. He could hear nothing but silence from within each room he passed. Yeah, definitely asleep. They weren’t waiting up for anyone.
    Trevor wished he hadn’t waited up at all. The man might not want to hide what they were anymore, but he wanted to avoid him now. It was like one step forward and two steps back.
    He fought the urge to slam the door to his room like a child, but when he was alone in there, he did finally let go and allow his tears to fall.
    Not like there was anyone watching. No reason to hide it.
    Then he spotted the book lying on his bed. Dracula .
    In a fit of blind rage, Trevor grabbed it and hurled it against his wall. He didn’t care anymore if he was acting like a child, and he didn’t care if he woke anyone up.
    He threw the novel with such a force that it put a hole in the drywall before bouncing out and falling to the floor.
    He immediately regretted what he’d done when several torn pages floated down slower than the book itself.
    It made him want to cry even harder as he bent down to clean up his mess.

Chapter Eight
     
    Phillip spent the next two days mostly in the company of Old Maggie and Ivan, and then reporting back to James.
    He had to learn how to properly let go of his wife if she was going to even have an afterlife that was more than just wandering around as a ghost zombie, oblivious to everything around her, and only existing to frighten the living.
    Ivan was hardly any help. The man suggested meditation and long walks. He told him that he should speak out loud to her, as though she was there, to give him the chance to