Molly Adalae’s Reviews > November 9 > Status Update

“I wrap my arms around her and pull her against me and when I feel her arms go around me.
I do the most non-alpha thing I can possibly do.
I cry like a fucking baby.”

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“Because that's exactly where I'll be. And if you don't show up today, I'll be there next year. And the next. Every November 9th I'll wait for you, hoping one day you'll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again. But if that doesn't happen and you never show, I'll still be grateful to you until the day that 1 die.”

“I'm convinced I know exactly why my mother killed herself.
His name is Donovan O'Neil.”

this cant be happening.

"Does she know, Ben? Does she have any idea that you're the one who started that fire? That you're the reason she almost died?"

no. stop they JUST got together NO

"As a matter of fact, yes. I am a writer. I've had a really bad case of writer's block this year, though. Really terrible. Haven't written a single word in 365 days. But oddly enough, I think I just had a major breakthrough a few minutes ago."
"Imagine that," Amber says, rolling her eyes.

Fifth November 9th
My flaws are draped in her mercy Revered by her false perception And with her lips upon my skin She will undress my deception.
—BENTON JAMES KESSLER

Fourth November 9th

In her darkness, she is silent.
In my darkness, she screams.
-BENTON JAMES KESSLER

"Ben?"
"Yeah?"
She points at my stomach. "You have abs?"
I laugh and look down at my abdomen. She said it like it was a question, so I give her the obvious answer. "Um ... yeah? I guess." She covers her mouth with my shirt, hiding her grin. "Wow," she says, her words muffled by my shirt. "I like them."
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Third November 9th
She "loved me" in quotations
She kissed me in bold
I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps
She left with an ellipsis...
—BENTON JAMES KESSLER

"I thought I was tougher than a word," he says. "But I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do."