User blog comment:LoveWaffle/We Didn't See It Coming - Iron Man 3 and the Future of the MCU/@comment-5977347-20130513205536/@comment-4651179-20130514221111

Well, I arrived late to the party but:

"Plus when did Aldrich develop a thing for Pepper?"

He was her ex-colleague, and she even mentioned Killian asked her for a date a lot of times.

Still, I've got a gift for you :D