The Lie He Lived by Maggie Saylor

Alex has spent years disappearing.

After an abusive relationship leaves him broken in ways he can’t begin to repair, Alex Wesley has rebuilt himself into a version that nobody looks twice at.
When he finds himself living with Mike Pierce, a loud, chaotic, musician who is unapologetically himself, Alex is determined not to let it get to him. Mike is everything Alex buried, and someone he can’t afford to want.
But Mike gets under his skin from the moment he sees him, and he can only hold out for so long.
What starts as casual sex turns into a connection neither of them planned for. And as Alex begins to let him in, the lie he’s been telling everyone about who he is and what he survived, gets harder and harder to maintain.

Because Mike makes him want to stop hiding, even though he knows that’s the only thing keeping him safe in a town like Rosehill.