Chapter 224 Morning and Night

In the early morning, when the first ray of sunlight 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, tilted his head and looked at the clock on the wall in confusion, and then suddenly woke up.

"It's 9 o'clock, damn it! I have a meeting to attend!"

Pepper grabbed her hair and sat up from the bed. Stark was awakened by her action, but he still turned over with a confused look on his face, put his arm around her waist and said, "Don't worry, baby, we can, um, we can sleep a little longer."

Pepper grabbed his arm and threw it out, then sat on the edge of the bed, gathered her hair with her hands, turned back and said to Stark, "You are a piece of mud and busy for nothing! I am not one of those models who accompany you to fool around on the yacht. More than half of the orders signed at the Expo have not been negotiated yet."

Pepper sat on the edge of the bed and covered her forehead. Stark was a little sober. He lay on the bed, looked at the ceiling, opened his eyes a few times, and then said with a lake: "What meeting and what order?"

Pepper looked back at him, as if doubting her life, and said, "Why did I believe your nonsense last night? God"

"Don't do this" Stark was still grumbling in a daze. He turned over and put his arm around Pepper's waist.

"I remember you were very touched last night. It was the first time we talked like that. It was great."

Seeing Stark's trembling eyelashes, Pepper sighed, turned back, and looked at the sunlight shining in from the window. The sleepiness that was awakened had not completely dissipated. The light of the morning light and the sunset was a little unclear between the hazy vision, and the conversation last night sounded in her mind again.

After the negotiation, Stark was in a complicated mood. The military bowed to him, Hammer Industries paid the price, and Yin Fan's revenge action was completely unsuccessful. Logically, he should be very happy, but it was not the case.

He always felt a little empty in his chest, and an unspeakable sense of loss surrounded him. It was not 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 sense of loss disappeared when he saw Pepper, he found that he was missing her.

Pepper walked into the room and saw Stark standing by the French window. It was late at night. The starry sky in New York was not as bright as imagined. After sunset, the fog obscured the moonlight and starlight, making the entire night sky look like a falling black curtain.

There was some 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 felt it was magical because Stark's eyes were always a little wet, as if they were containing a glimmer. Even if there was no light source now, he could clearly see his emotions from Stark's eyes.

I don't know if it was this emotion called missing that lit up his eyes, or if the sun in his eye sockets was shining itself, but every time Pepper was stared at by him, it was always difficult to say no.

Pepper walked to his side and looked into his eyes. In the past, every time at this time, Stark felt like a babbling child, with a lot of words on his lips, but he couldn't say anything.

But today, his language system seemed to have just been launched. 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 Stark didn't need an answer, but just a listener, so she thought about it and answered, "I think it was when you activated the defense facilities and saw Hammer's surprised expression, 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 correct. If you can't show enough power, the trouble will be endless."

"I don't want to discuss this."

Pepper looked up at Stark and always felt that his expression became very focused.

Stark said, "I was happiest when I saw Peter and his girlfriend visiting the exhibition."

"They carried their backpacks and walked to each product with surprised expressions, listened carefully to the explanations of the guides, discussed in low voices, avoided the flow of people, and whispered."

"I saw them too. It's great to be young, right?" Pepper smiled and said.

"I feel happy because," Stark looked at Pepper and said, "I was thinking, if only we could do that."

"I'll go to a place we agreed to meet you, and then we'll follow the crowd into the exhibition hall and be surprised and happy about every new thing we see."

Pepper shook her head, sighed and said, "Then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. The girl named Gwen is very interested in those machines. When it comes to these things, she's 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 visit this kind of industrial exhibition for a whole day and surprise you from beginning to end, it definitely won't be me."

"Do 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 many disasters, Stark Group went bankrupt."

"When I woke up from a chaotic dream, I found that I had nothing."

"I was on the street, hungry and cold, and could only survive on the food in 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 unextinguished oil drum to keep warm."

Pepper looked at Stark and saw a trace of fear between his eyebrows. Pepper stroked Stark's face with her hand and said, "I can't imagine if this really happened."

Then, she suddenly reacted and said, "But this can't happen, You still have so many friends, how could they let you fall into this situation? "

"What if they are all dead?"

Pepper shook her head and said, "No matter what the reason is, if they are all dead, you can't be alive, you will always want to protect them."

"No matter how bad the disaster is, you will definitely be the one rushing to the front."

Pepper stroked Stark's face, looked into his eyes intently and said, "Sometimes I don't want you to do this, but if you live in disgrace, you won't be Stark."

Stark turned his head away, smiled helplessly and said, "You just make it impossible for me to continue telling this story."

"Then don't tell it, it's just a dream, there's no need to worry about it."

"Dream?" Stark muttered to himself : "Maybe"

"But this story has a very important ending. Do you really not want to hear it?" Pepper was stared at by Stark's expectant eyes. She couldn't say no, so 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 did you go? Then I woke up and found that it was just a dream."

"Do you know why I realized that this was a dream?"

Stark stretched out a hand, paused in mid-air, and then covered Pepper to touch his cheek 's hand, and said, "Because you won't leave me, right?"

Pepper looked at him straight, then suddenly laughed and said, "You went through so much trouble to say this?"

"I know I'm a little shameless. I didn't give you any guarantees, but I asked you for this answer first, but you haven't known me for the first time." Stark also laughed: "I'm so shameless."

"Then you deserve to go bankrupt. If you can't continue to pay me such a high salary, I will definitely turn around and leave."

Stark held Pepper's arm, he stood closer and said, "Before, a person who claimed to be a mind reader suggested to me that he could tell me an answer at an appropriate time."

"What answer?"

"Do you really love me? "

Pepper was about to say that there was no such thing as mind reading in the world, and then she suddenly realized it and looked at Stark in shock.

The pair of brown eyes were like rich honey, and Pepper felt like a bewitched bee at this moment, a little dizzy.

Outside the glass curtain wall of Stark Tower, a ball of gray mist floated at the corner of the building. Spider-Man used a spider silk to stick to the eaves and hung upside down there, looking at the scene inside. Spider-Man turned his head and 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 his head back and saw that behind the glimmering glass curtain wall, the two were kissing each other.

After the kiss, Stark let go of Pepper. Before he could say anything else, in the corner of his eye, a ball of gray mist slowly turned into a symbol, a check mark.

Recalling the scene last night, Stark, who was lying on the bed, covered his eyes and couldn't help laughing.

While changing clothes, Pepper turned back and said angrily: "Are you happy to see me late? What are you laughing at?"

"I'm not." Stark tried to sit up from the bed. He scratched his messy hair and said: "I'm your boss, I can give you a day off, we..."

"Don't say that kind of stupid thing, after I take a vacation, what about the pile of orders? What about the meeting? What about the company?"

"It doesn't matter, I can replace you for a day, and I'll handle these things."

"Yes, then I can take a day off. "Pepper said coldly: "Then spend twice as much time in the next three months to deal with the damage you caused today."

Stark quickly changed his clothes. Pepper had never seen him move so quickly since she met him. Stark put on his coat, sunglasses, and went out in a flash. Before leaving, he said: "Then I must prove to you that there is nothing in this world that Stark can't handle."

An hour later, the Sanctum Sanctorum received an unexpected call. Strange took the phone from the salesperson with one hand, put one hand on his waist, and said helplessly: "We are a cosmic line here. Can you call my private number if you have anything?"

"Find someone to help, man, damn, I seem to have made a mistake. This contract seems to be from last year, but I have already signed it."

Strange heard Stark's somewhat collapsed voice: "Since you can provide services to so many messed up people, it should not be difficult to handle this. Come quickly, otherwise Pepper will kill me!"

"We are the Sanctum Sanctorum here, mainly engaged in tasks related to the Cosmic Demon God"

"I am also a Cosmic Demon God!!! Come quickly!!"

"For the problems of the Stark Group, you should find a professional staff team. We are all a bunch of scammers. I mean financial staff."

"I'm looking for financial staff!"

"Then why don't you go to Wall Street?"

"Aren't you on Wall Street?!!!" Stark yelled.

Half an hour later, Strange and the 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 the answer yesterday."

"But you told me that yourself." Stark stared at Schiller.

Schiller smiled and said, "What gave you the illusion that I would not force you to buy or sell?"

"Unscrupulous quack!"

"I'll say it again"

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