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

by Jessica Hawkins

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

I just said we’d always be.”

She didn’t know how lucky she was.

I liked that laugh so much, that carefree sound in my ears.

Lake made me feel like a man again just for having someone to look out for.

She should have someone looking out for her. I wanted to be that someone.

Never.

One day he’d be mine;

Lake was still everything I wanted, and nothing I should ever have. I was nobody before I knew her and a criminal after.