Steve hadn't brought it up, you didn't go around talking about exes to set the mood or anything. But if Tony wanted to know, or thought he wanted to know, he wanted to tell him. Like if he hadn't known Pepper he'd have so many questions and he'd need to know, he'd have had to know as much as possible. Even if it wasn't actually something he wanted to know about, it was a strange dichotomy.
"Maybe it was just an excuse to insist on making me dinner," Steve shrugged and yeah he'd considered that was probably what it had been, even at the time. But he'd been lonely, devastatingly lonely and Simon smart and handsome and there.
"It was a little over a year and then he ended it," Steve explained as he continued the gentle drum of his fingertips.