In a Jam (Friendship, RI Book 1)

by Kate Canterbary

“The start of your villain era,” she said. “The ‘no fucks given, ask me if I care, throw out your whole life and start over just because you feel like it’ era.”

The corners of her lips were always tipped up as if she was waiting for a reason to smile.

didn’t appreciate her draining me of all the resentment and contempt I’d built up over the years with little more than a smile from her.

She was beautiful in a way that overwhelmed me,

She was a sunbeam through a storm cloud.

She’d stayed with me even when she wasn’t.

“How does she have two proposals under her belt and I can’t get a good morning text?” Emme muttered.

Like an angel who knew enough of heaven and hell to walk away from both.

“Just because I can plow through by myself doesn’t mean I want to,” I said. “Fuck, Shay. Let me need you, okay?”