Bella wrinkles her nose, pushing her irritation away. Perhaps the phrasing he used wasn't too difficult to follow, if you're Sherlock Holmes.

"It's okay, I misunderstood.

"Assassins." She thinks back on what she learned about Stane and his relation to the Stark family, both personal and professional, during her research into the Starks. She hadn't prioritized any of that, but it had stayed with her.

Bella isn't very good at forgetting things that are relevant to information she's been especially focused on these days.

"After Tony. You would have been collateral damage."

And, in his double's case, inexcusably ill-considered and stupid collateral damage. Had that Obadiah Stane wanted to die horribly?

She does not bother to try and keep that line of thought off her face.