Somebody Else's Sky (Something in the Way, #2)

by Jessica Hawkins

“Why are you dressed like that?”

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“You wasted your time.” “Maybe I did,” I said, “but time never feels wasted on you.”

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He looked at me like he owned part of my soul.

“You’ll find the man who’s right for you. Who’s good for you. Who brings out the best in you. Like I do for your sister. You deserve someone who can take care of you.” “I don’t want to be taken care of. I want to be loved the way you love me.”

THESE TWOOOOO

“Manning?” I heard from a distance.

DAMMIT TIFFANY GO BACK TO SLEEP

He’d never told me he loved me. I’d based an entire future with him on the things we hadn’t said, on looks exchanged and almost-touches. I knew I hadn’t imagined it, but I had no evidence of it whatsoever, not even a complete, unwavering certainty that Manning felt the same way I did.

But he was still the one who could get everything I wanted with one word from Lake.

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“You can’t have it both ways,” Val said

THANK YOU VAL

I grasped at straws, feeling like I was losing a battle I’d always been so confident I’d win.

Manning had once told me you couldn’t move the stars. I’d thought that meant our love was predestined, written in the night sky, sure as death. Behind my lids, I pictured the two stars and realized for the first time the permanent distance between them. And I accepted that there was, and always had been, a third star. You can’t move the stars. I had tried, and I had failed.

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