Lover
Mates
Mates noun - A pair of people who live together.
Both words in one sentence
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Then Kouichi's sister-in-law Chie turns out to be one of Shiho's school mates and follows them - unaware that her sister is the one who actually has a lover.
Source: Manga / Private Actress -
She appears very guilty to everyone but her lover and one of her two apartment-mates...the other, Kat, is dead, and Paige blames herself... I Have This Friend...: In Master of the Game, George uses a variant of this trope when he's sent to a psychiatrist to be analyzed after he brutally attacks Eve.
Source: Creator / Sidney Sheldon - Formerly squad mates in the previous war, they still maintain a rather tenuous relationship, due to Varrot's inability to get over the death of her lover and Largo's unrequited feelings for her.
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