Pepper can't help but breathe a soft laugh at that, shaking her head with a smile and ducking her head for a moment.
"For such a small town, we seem to have an overabundance of gentlemen who are far too charming for their own good," she remarks wryly, glancing up at Bucky. And she'd fallen for the one man who was neither; well, maybe in his own way.
A beat later, Pepper gives in and takes his offered hand. "Well. Let's test the theory then, shall we?"