POV: Killian
I strode back to my office after a meeting that could have been an email, my phone buzzing in my pocket just as I dropped into my leather chair. River's name flashed on the screen. I rolled my shoulders, trying to shake off the tension of another pointless status update, and picked up.
"River."
"Hey man, you busy this weekend?"
"Hold on, let me check." I pulled up my calendar, my finger dragging down a week packed tight with meetings and obligations I couldn't care less about. "Free Sunday. Why, everything alright?"
"Yeah, fine, it's just." He paused, and I could practically hear him fidgeting with something on the other end, maybe a pen, maybe his own nerves. "I want to propose to Lily. Need help planning it."
His voice had dropped into something soft, something I wasn'
