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

by Jessica Hawkins

Family shouldn’t mean an automatic free pass to treat others like shit. At some point, you had to recognize people for what they were.

Some invisible tether existed between us. Nobody could see it, not even us, but I felt it. I was sure Manning did, too. As long as we both knew it, that was enough for me. For now, at least.

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.

It was a promise. No matter what, the story would only ever be about us.

it felt as if her goodness could actually be enough to heal my ugliness.

Manning and I were inevitable.