Alright, so. Hi all! These chapters are in the narrative weeds. There's barely any sex, but lots of reserved thoughts about sex as well as logistical references to future sex and things like that. It's a hot mess at the moment, but it was better to push through than linger in it any longer.
Chapter 9 is an Alice PoV where she becomes a mini-detective, and it works out fine. (There's a bit with a weird archivist woman that's probably irrelevant). But the goal is to work though the reveal that Benny and Melanie are together. Except due to chapter 08, everyone already knows that. So, 09 will probably move to 08, but then 08 is already in a weird spot.
Chapter 10 is mostly where it should be, but it introduces its own chronological nightmares instead as it jumps back in time on the night where the "main" story is taking place.So, it's a mess that's been bogging me down for weeks, but gonna put that behind me and press on. I will say that *what* happens is all fine, just the order of it happening is borked. Better to have three borked chapters than zero.