CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Aaron realized that he'd made a huge mistake in moving to a tiny island. It meant that no matter how hard he tried, he'd run into the people he most wanted to avoid seeing.
Back in Seattle, he'd gotten tired of feeling invisible, moving through a sea of people but never feeling seen. Now, he desperately wished to return to that kind of invisibility.
After the ordeal at Alex's store, Aaron threw himself into his work. He also avoided the coffee shop across the street from Alex's store, He only went to the grocery store early in the morning, when he knew she would either be at work or asleep. He avoided Lyn's, and the bed-and-breakfast, and if he could've locked himself in his house, he would have.
But the kids needed rides, and Aaron needed food, so becoming a true reclu
