Paternity leave.
Two words that nearly caused one Chief of Staff to slip on perfectly flat ground toward certain death.
Killian would like to believe he had been functioning as a perfectly normal human being up until the exact moment his mother suddenly uttered something as absurd as:
"You know what? You should go on paternity leave."
Honestly, the moment she opened with "You know what," he should've already activated every defensive instinct available to him.
And yet somehow, he still allowed himself to get ambushed like this.
Now he was paying dearly for it.
Killian Nox genuinely could not figure out where he was supposed to pull his next words from because his thoughts had completely short-circuited from sheer disbelief.
He wanted to say she had to be joking.
Unfortunately, there was one major problem with that hopeful assumption.
The jokes of his dear mother, Marquise Evelyn Nox, rarely strayed far from her actual opinions.
Which meant she was probably serious.
