POV: Tony Stark

I'd been carrying the ring in my pocket for three weeks. I'm Every time I thought I'd found the perfect moment to propose, something got in the way. Foundation meetings. Emma getting sick. The discovery of Thomas Bennett. Police interviews about Alex's safe. Life kept happening, and the ring stayed hidden.

Pepper found me staring at my desk calendar, calculating when I could arrange an evening alone with Lily.

"You're overthinking this," she said, setting a coffee on my desk.

"I'm not overthinking anything."

"You've rescheduled the dinner reservation at Carmichael's four times. You bought roses three separate times and let them die because you decided the...