[Tony reads over the text, but then he— sets his phone aside. Jack is free to sulk all he wants. He's an adult. He doesn't need Tony looking after him. Never has.

And Tony... He doesn't feel any need to explain. It's not even that explaining has never worked in the past. —It's that it simply doesn't matter. His feelings are his own and the responsibility of only himself, no one else. That also means he's obligated to no one to share them.

He'll deal with everything on his own. Dun dun dunnn]