In the early morning, when the first ray of sunshine in New York shone through the gap in the curtains, Stark moved his arms and covered his eyes with his arms, as if to resist the light. Pepper opened his eyes hazily, and turned his head in confusion.
I glanced at the clock on the wall and suddenly woke up.
"It's 9 o'clock, damn! I still have a meeting!"
Pepper grabbed her hair and sat up from the bed. Stark was awakened by her movements, but he still turned over with a confused look on his face. He put his arm around her waist and said, "Don't worry, honey, we can, um, we can do it again."
Get some sleep."
Pepper grabbed his arm and threw him out. Then he sat on the edge of the bed, combed his hair with his hands, and turned to Stark and said, "You are such a mess! I'm not one of those people who are here to accompany you."
Models fooling around on the yacht, and more than half of the orders signed at the expo have yet to be finalized.”
Pepper sat on the edge of the bed and covered his forehead. Stark finally woke up a little. He lay on the bed, looked at the ceiling, opened his eyes a few times, and then said in a coquettish way: "What meeting and what order?"
Pepper looked back at him and said as if doubting his life: "How could I believe your nonsense last night? God"
"Don't do this," Stark muttered, still sleepy. He turned over and put his arm around Pepper's waist.
"I remember you were very moved last night. It was the first time we chatted like that. It was really nice."
Seeing Stark's trembling eyelashes, Pepper sighed, turned back, and glanced at the sunlight coming in from the window. The sleepiness of being awakened had not completely dissipated. In her hazy vision, the morning light and the sunset light were somewhat distinguishable.
Unclear, the conversation last night rang in her mind again.
After the negotiation, Stark felt very complicated. The military bowed to him, Hammer Industries paid the price, and Yin Fan's revenge was completely unsuccessful. Logically speaking, he should be very happy, but that was not the case.
He always felt a little empty in his chest, and an indescribable sense of loss surrounded him. It wasn't until he saw Pepper that he understood where this emotion came from.
Stark was not a person who would talk about missing her, but he had to admit that when the feeling of loss disappeared when he saw Pepper, he found that he missed her.
Pepper, who walked into the room, saw Stark standing by the floor-to-ceiling window. It was already late at night. The starry sky in New York was not as bright as expected. After sunset, the fog obscured the moonlight and starlight, making the entire night sky look like
A falling black curtain.
There was some dim light in the room, but it was not enough to illuminate everything clearly. Stark stood in front of the glass with a faint cold light and turned to look at Pepper.
Pepper found it amazing, because Stark's eyes were always moist, as if there was a glimmer of light in his mouth. Even if there was no light source, he could clearly see his emotions in Stark's eyes.
.
He didn't know whether it was this emotion called missing that lit up his eyes, or whether the sun in his eyes was glowing, but whenever Pepper was looked at by him, it was always difficult to say no.
Pepper walked up to him and looked into his eyes. In the past, every time at this time, Stark felt like a child learning to talk, with a lot of words on his lips, but nothing came out.
But today, his language system seemed to have just come online. He said to Pepper: "Do you know when I was happiest today?"
Pepper had dealt with too many of Stark's wild questions. She knew that many times, Stark didn't need an answer, but just a listener, so she thought briefly and answered: "I think
, it should be when you saw Hammer's surprised expression after activating the defense facilities, right?"
"When you decided to renovate the building, I didn't agree with it because it was a bit risky, but now it seems that this choice is the right one. If you can't show enough strength, there will be endless troubles."
"I don't want to discuss this."
Pepper raised her eyes to look at Stark, feeling that his expression had become very focused.
Stark said: "My happiest moment was when I saw Peter and his girlfriend visiting the exhibition."
"They carried their schoolbags and walked to each product, showing surprised expressions. They listened carefully to the explanations of the instructors, discussed in low voices, avoided the flow of people, and whispered."
"I saw them too. It's nice to be young, right?" Pepper said with a smile.
"I'm happy because" Stark looked at Pepper and said, "I was thinking, if only we could do that."
"I will wait for you at an appointed place, and then we will follow the flow of people into the exhibition hall and be surprised and happy with every new thing we see."
Pepper shook her head, sighed and said, "I'm afraid you will be very disappointed. That girl named Gwen is very interested in those machines. When it comes to these things, she is even more knowledgeable than Peter."
"But I don't know anything about these things, and I'm not very interested in them. If you want to find someone who can accompany you to this kind of industrial exhibition for a whole day, and be surprised from beginning to end, it will definitely not be me."
"Did you know?" Stark suddenly changed the subject, "I had a dream a few days ago, a very real dream. You can listen to it as a real story."
Pepper looked at him and heard his hoarse voice echoing in the room:
"One day in the future, after experiencing many disasters, Stark Group will go bankrupt."
"When I woke up from a chaotic dream, I found that I had nothing."
"I was living on the streets, suffering from hunger and cold, and could only survive on the food from the relief station."
"I felt very tired and humiliated. I had to move slowly on the street like a beggar, trying to find a complete cardboard box or an unburned oil drum to keep warm."
Pepper looked at Stark and saw a hint of fear between his eyebrows. Pepper touched Stark's face with her hand and said, "I can't imagine if this really happened."
Then, she suddenly came to her senses and said, "But this can't happen. You still have so many friends. How could they let you end up in this situation?"
"What if they all die?"
Pepper shook his head and said: "No matter what the reason is, if they are all dead, then you will not be alive. You will always want to protect them."
"No matter how bad a disaster happens, you will always be the first to go."
Pepper caressed Stark's face, looked into his eyes intently and said, "Sometimes I don't want you to do this, but if you just live in an ignoble way, that's not Stark."
Stark turned his head, smiled helplessly and said, "You just make it impossible for me to tell this story."
"Then don't talk about it. It's just a dream. There's no need to worry about it."
"A dream?" Stark murmured, "Maybe."
"But this story has a very important ending. Don't you really want to hear it?" Stark looked at Pepper with expectant eyes, and she couldn't say no. She asked, "What ending?"
Stark opened his mouth and seemed to have returned to the state of aphasia. After a long pause, he still said: "To put it bluntly, when I thought I was going to die, the first person I thought of was you."
Perhaps because he felt that his words were too abrupt, Stark explained: "I dreamed that I was about to die, and before I died, I was thinking, where have you been? Then I woke up and found that it was just a
Dream."
"Do you know why I realized this was a dream?"
Stark stretched out a hand, paused in mid-air, then covered Pepper's hand caressing his cheek, and said, "Because you won't leave me, right?"
Pepper looked straight at him, then suddenly laughed and said, "You took such a big detour and you just wanted to say this?"
"I know I'm a little shameless. I didn't give you any guarantee, but I asked you for this answer first, but it's not the first day you've known me." Stark also laughed: "I'm so shameless."
"Then you deserve to be bankrupt. If you can't continue to pay me such a high salary, I will definitely turn around and leave."
Stark took Pepper's arm, stood closer, and said, "Before, a man who claimed to be a mind reader suggested to me that he could tell me an answer at an appropriate time."
"What's the answer?"
"Do you really love me?"
Pepper was about to say that there was no such thing as mind reading in the world, but then she suddenly realized what she was doing and looked at Stark in shock.
Those brown eyes were like rich honey, and Pepper felt like a bewitched bee, a little dizzy.
Outside the glass curtain wall of Stark Tower, a cloud of gray mist floated at the corner of the building. Spider-Man used a piece of spider silk to stick to the eaves and hung upside down. Looking at the scene indoors, Spider-Man turned his head.
Said to the gray mist: "Although I don't know what you are, it's wrong to peek."
The gray mist suddenly turned into an arrow, pointing in the direction of Stark and Pepper. Spider-Man turned back and saw the two people kissing each other behind the shimmering glass curtain wall.
After ending the kiss, Stark let go of Pepper. Before he could say anything more, in the corner of his vision, a gray mist slowly turned into a symbol, which was a check mark.
Recalling the scene last night, Stark, lying on the bed, covered his eyes and couldn't help laughing.
While changing clothes, Pepper turned around and said angrily: "Are you happy to see that I'm late? What are you laughing at?"
"I didn't." Stark struggled to sit up from the bed. He scratched his messy hair and said, "I am your boss. I can give you a day off. We"
"Don't say such silly things. What will happen to the pile of orders after I take my vacation? What will happen to the meeting? What will happen to the company?"
"It doesn't matter. I can take your place for a day and I will take care of these things."
"Yes, then I can indeed take a day off." Pepper said coldly: "Then in the next three months, I will spend twice as much time dealing with the damage you caused on this day."
Stark quickly changed his clothes. Pepper had never seen him move so quickly since she met him. Stark put on his coat, put on his sunglasses, and went out as soon as he took a cigarette. Before going out, he said
: "Then I have to prove to you that there is nothing in this world that Stark can't handle."
An hour later, the Sanctuary received an unexpected call. Strange took the phone from the salesman's hand with one hand, put his other hand on his hip, and said helplessly: "This is our special line for the universe, what can you do?
Can you call me on my personal phone?"
"Find someone to help, man, damn, I seem to have made something wrong. This contract seems to be from last year, but I have already signed it."
Strange heard Stark's slightly collapsed voice: "Since you can provide services to so many random people, it shouldn't be difficult to get this done. Come here quickly, or Pepper will kill me!"
"This is the Holy of Holies, and we are mainly engaged in tasks related to the universe demon."
"I am also the Space Demon!!! Come here quickly!!"
"For Stark Group's problems, you should go to a professional staff team. We are all a bunch of fraud, I mean financial staff."
“What I’m looking for is financial staff!”
"Then why don't you go to Wall Street to find it?"
"Aren't you on Wall Street?!!!" Stark yelled.
Half an hour later, Strange and a dejected Stark appeared outside the door of Arkham Sanatorium. Schiller blocked the door and said: "If you want to be admitted, you have to pay first."
"Also, pay the money for yesterday's answer."
"But you told me that yourself." Stark glared at Schiller and said.
Schiller smiled and said, "What gives you the illusion that I won't buy or sell by force?"
"Unscrupulous doctor!"
"I'll say it again"
digression
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