The Inevitable

KELLAN’S POV

Avoidance, I had come to realize, was not a solution.

It was a delay. A temporary shield that a person used to keep everything else at a distance, to buy time, to pretend that certain conversations did not need to happen.

But the problem with avoidance was that it never truly worked. Eventually, everything caught up. That realization settled heavily in my chest the moment my phone buz