“I don’t go back on my word. I might be a lot of things but I’m not a liar.” He didn’t have to lie, after all. His business didn’t rely on it, his personality was annoying enough. He put out his hand as if sealing a deal, or at least ready to agree on some terms. “You can lead and I won’t even purposefully step on your toes.”

Maybe there had been more eloquent ways to try and get a date after outright refusing one, but Tony was only human and irrevocably flawed.

“What do you have to lose, Rogers?”