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“Because that’s where Cole’s body is going.” He pushed through the door.
Cassian stayed back.
Noah looked between the two of us before his mouth went into a flatline. “You chose?”
“What?”
“Between them. Just now. You made your choice.”
“I didn’t—that’s not what that was.”
“That’s what Lee thinks. If that’s not the case, you need to let him know—”
“I JUST FOUND OUT HE’S A NECROMANCER! Give me a fucking break, Noah.”
“You knew he was hiding something.”
“Not that. Not ever—how could I have been prepared for that big of a secret?”
“He told you that he’s like you.”
“I didn’t know! I didn’t know what he meant. I thought…” I shook my head, everything was upside down. “I thought it was about the family stuff. His parents. My grandparents. I didn’t—”
“Isn’t it?” Noah retorted. “Have you not thought about why you have two boyfriends? About why you need two boyfriends?”
“What are you talking about?”
“You.”
“Me?”
“There’s two sides of you. Human.” He gestured to Cassian, sneering. “And your other.” He indicated himself. “Two sides of you. Two boyfriends. If you think you can go forward with just this chump at your side, you’re deluding yourself. You need both of them, but if you’re stupid enough or vindictive enough to try and cut Lee out because you’re mad at him, I will make my stance very clear.” He gestured out the door. “I may want to murder that guy every minute of the day because I’m pissed he brought me back to this but make no mistake. He is my best friend. He was my ride or die when we were alive and he’s still my ride or die. You hurt him, and I will make this human your mom’s roommate in the mental hospital. You get me?”
Rage began to build in me. Ice. Cold. Rage. “Get the fuck out of my face.”
He snorted. “Gladly.”
When he was gone, it was just me and Cassian.
Cassian was looking around the room. “Hello? Are you still here?”
Well, shit.
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Ihadn’t mastered the poofing yet like certain asshole ghosts, so I was relegated to hitching a ride with Lee and Cassian. Both of them drove to the hospital, but Cassian insisted on being able to communicate with me so he left his truck at the hospital and hopped in with Lee. A hospital ghost tried to approach Lee, to ask him if it was true, if he could bring back someone who already crossed over. He wanted his old girlfriend to be brought back. Apparently he didn’t mean to stalk her in real life or kill her, and he really just wanted to apologize.
Lee did something with his fingers and the hospital ghost disappeared from sight. He went down into the ground. My nose twitched when that happened, but nope. I was not going to say anything or ask anything because this was not a conversation we needed to have at this moment.
Cassian, though, on the other hand, sniffed the air. “Dude. Is there a fire somewhere? I smell smoke. This is not the time, Noah.”
My eyelid twitched. That’s all I was going to let myself react to what I just witnessed. Yep. Totally just going to let my eyelid twitch. Maybe a few times because when we stopped at the one stoplight in town, some ghost bikers approached the car. They pulled up next to us. All thirty of them were looking right at us.
The guy in the front, whose face was an actual skull, smirked. “See, it’s true. Reaper’s girlfriend is now one of us. Blondie actually pulled it off.” We could hear him through the closed windows.
Lee didn’t move. He didn’t react. He continued staring straight ahead at the red light, since no other cars were crossing in front of us. But then, he rolled his window down, looked right at the guy on the other side of the leader guy. He spoke, calmly and with no emotion, “Anyone who touches her, threatens her, or even thinks about harming her will die again. Slowly. With torture. Pass it on.”
The leader guy frowned briefly. “Why are you telling him—”
