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.

“You make me smile, Lake. Nobody else does. How could I walk away from you?”

“We have time. I want to know.” “Why?” I asked. “Because I care,” he said. “I care very much.”

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 wasn’t so much the difference in our ages that scared me, but how much a person could change, could be changed, in only a couple years.

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

You can’t move the stars. Manning and I were inevitable.