Avoidance, Beth was beginning to learn, was a strategy best employed in large spaces with multiple exits and no shared mealtimes.
Which should have been easy, given her current residence. Santiago's house was no small apartment with space everywhere. It had multiple exits; however, the constant presence of security personnel made using them difficult.
And as for shared meal times, Kaleth ate at seven, at noon, and at five, and he preferred known faces at the table with him. And as it happened, the known faces he preferred were hers and his father's, which meant that the avoidance strategy she had been running since six in the morning was less a strategy and more a series of increasingly creative detours.
After Kaleth’s breakfast, which mercifully hadn’t involved Santiago, they had spen
