"I'm sorry." Because someone should say it, and the Malnosso definitely won't, especially considering that this is an annual event for them. "But it doesn't have to turn out poorly."

Or at least not any more so than it already has. Pepper presses her lips into a tight line when Clint admits that the time away hasn't really provided him with the relief he'd hoped for. "Is that because of what Natasha admitted to you, after? That she didn't regret it?"