That cold fury dissipated at Steve's admission, but only slightly. "You thought you were shielding me somehow. Right?"

The question was rhetorical. He could recount Steve's final letter word-for-word.

"That's--that's what you do best. So good they named a damned organization with its hooks in every world power after you. Rogers--look. When I got the truth out of you, it ended with me on the ground and you absconding with Barnes to god-knows-where. That's not what the world needs."