“You’re saying that as long as he senses it—”
“He’ll never leave you alone,” Carson finished. “He can’t. I don’t know if your instincts are found in your body or your soul…I don’t even know what a ghost is. But everybody seems to agree that ghosts linger because they can’t accept their deaths.”
“You’re right.” Edwin sighed and dropped his head back to Carson’s shoulder. “He was so young. He was a kid.”
“I know.”
“Eighteen…He never even saw any of the world. I don’t think I’d be willing to move on either.”
“But you were willing to leave the world for him.”
Edwin shook his head. “I don’t think I was exactly willing. But death has its own freedom, doesn’t it?
“Does it? Is Cooper free from pain? Is he free from desire? Is he free from loneliness? Giving in to him won’t help him…It won’t
