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who was not a mate. Things like that only led to complications, and cheating, in the eyes of the wise men and women of each pack.
    But she was gone now, no matter what he did. He wasn’t ready to move in with Trevor, but he didn’t want to hide the man anymore either. He wasn’t a disease.
    “He walked in on Trevor and myself in his cottage. I’m sure he smelled what we’d been doing earlier.”
    James’s dark and crooked brows lifted. “Oh? Well, just do me a favor and don’t let it go on too long. He’s a young werewolf, and I don’t want to see either of you getting hurt when he finds his mate.”
    Phillip wet his lips here. Time to confess something that no one in this group knew about. “Trevor is my mate, James.”
    Those dark brows went even higher into James’s hairline. “But, I thought with Helen…” He trailed off. There wasn’t exactly a polite way to voice the questions that were no doubt going through his head.
    “Oh, shit,” Ivan said.
    “Helen and I were never mated. I loved her anyway and sometimes even managed to trick myself into thinking we were mated. We got married and told everyone in my pack that we were mated to make it official. I didn’t want anyone questioning her authority or calling her a concubine.” Or questioning the rights his son had to leading the pack one day. Of course, that was no longer the point, considering Phillip didn’t have a pack anymore. He stared sharply at James at this point. “I’d like to keep it that way.”
    “You still want to keep this a secret?” James asked.
    “What I want is for no one to call my dead wife a whore because we weren’t mated,” Phillip said. He scratched his forehead with his thumb for the outburst, then addressed the alpha again. “People are going to find out eventually. That’s inevitable, and I don’t mind that anymore. I just don’t want this getting passed around until Trevor and I have come to a better understanding.”
    Old Maggie frowned at him. Her response was the one that confused Phillip the most. “Perhaps this is the true reason for her unrest. Watching a former loved one mate with another would be quite heartbreaking.”
    Something inside of Phillip cracked when the old woman said that. “What did you say?”
    Really, he wanted her to repeat it. Because it almost sounded like the wise woman was speaking about his wife in the present tense.
    “This is why we brought you here. To explain what Eric and I’ve been seeing,” Ivan said.
    Phillip remembered that the man was a medium, and he had the ability to see spirits. “What have you been seeing?” he asked, almost too afraid to hear the answer.
    Ivan led him over to the water. Phillip could vaguely recall being here once or twice before, when he was still recovering. This would be the first time he was back here and was still of a sound mind.
    Ivan pointed to the water, and Phillip looked into the pool, noticing his reflection, Ivan’s, James’s, as well as Old Maggie’s still-frowning face.
    There was another person there that he almost didn’t see. He had to squint before the faded image became clear enough for him to recognize.
    He stumbled back when he recognized Helen’s transparent face, standing right next to him. He tripped over his own feet and fell onto his ass, but that didn’t stop him from doing the backward crab walk just to get away from what he’d seen.
    Ivan stared down at him with a pitying expression. “I figured you would be able to see her through the water. This is a spiritual place.”
    Phillip shook his head. “She couldn’t have…She’s a ghost?”
    Ivan nodded. “I’m sorry. I haven’t really spent any time in your company before, so I never noticed her, but now I do see her. She’s pretty much with you wherever you go.”
    “Why? What does it mean?” Phillip asked. He finally managed to get to his feet and dust himself off. He looked around, as though expecting to see her, but of course, he