Chapter 9It went too quickly.
Seven days was a lot of time when you were waiting for grades to get turned in, or anticipating getting concert tickets the day they went on sale, or looking forward to meeting the woman who had turned your head around online.
Seven days wasn’t any time at all when said woman was leaving town for a long business trip and this was all the time you were going to get with her for the next month. It was barely a blink of an eye when there was so much more you wanted to say to her, and do with her, and watch her do.
Ben couldn’t sleep.
The red numbers on Ana’s alarm clock mocked him with their reminder that it was now 3:26 A.M., and in three hours, Ana would be rising from this bed, grabbing the case she’d already packed, and then kissing him at their cars as s
