" Ten days. You can count them.” “And you won’t be late?” I plead up to him. “You won’t forget?” “I won’t,” he says as he kisses me once more. His fingertips thread though my hair and he pulls back just enough to whisper in my mouth. “I promise to never be late. "

― J.A. Huss , Come Back (Dirty, Dark, and Deadly, #2)