Tony was used to Pepper. When Pepper used that tone, he bought her a new diamond tennis bracelet, or gave her the reigns of the most powerful company in the world.

But Peggy Carter...well. This was thirty plus years of deep resentment, trauma, and irrational hatred. If she went at him, she'd find out what the repulsor in his palm could do.

"You heard me. You. Howard. Doing the horizontal bop under my mother's nose. I mean, that's the only rational conclusion. You stole him away from the house at every hour of the day, and calling it SSR business. The security of the nation is all well and good....but every other day? You're shameless, woman."