Something in the Way (Something in the Way, #1)

by Jessica Hawkins

But I couldn’t shake the feeling that even though I’d met Manning first, for some reason, Tiffany thought he belonged to her.

My sister’s death had turned my world dark, but Lake was light.

“That’s my girl.”

“I said everyone should—not everyone does.” “I’ll be that someone, Manning,” I said.

Maybe he didn’t know exactly what he felt about me, but he had some idea, and he expected me not to wonder about it. I would wonder and think hard about it now—not ‘someday’ when it might be too late. When he was already gone.

Someone else would be her first love. Some other man would be the first to cherish her. The first to ruin her. It couldn’t be me. It

My world had been so dark before Lake. It worried me how far I’d go to keep that light in my life.

was no better than it, drowning her, taking what wasn’t mine, turning beautiful things ugly.

One day he’d be mine; I already felt that he was, I just couldn’t say it. But he knew. I knew.