After choosing a decorating company, Mercer made her request clear and left the matter to Flint.

As the days passed, the temperature gradually warmed up, and Manhattan returned to its former hustle and bustle.

One morning, Mercer received a call from Coulson.

"Yo, Phil, you've got time to call me, I hope you didn't bring me any bad news."

Coulson's voice was a little weird, as if it was a little awkward: "Alex, it's not bad news, Melinda is back!" ”

"......", Mercer was stunned for a moment, he didn't understand what Coulson meant, "you mean you want me to treat you to dinner?" Or is there some welcome party? ”

"No, something happened, Melinda wasn't in a good mood and was going to go back office," Coulson said with a slurred voice, he really didn't want to make the call if it wasn't for Nick Fury's orders.

"Uh, she's in a bad mood, what can I do? It's not a bad thing to turn to the office, the province fights life and death all day long, and besides, she is not no one to comfort her", Mercer said speechlessly, a married woman is in a bad mood, what can she do?

"Melinda is also divorced......"

Mercer squirted a sip of beer on the ground, and said even more speechlessly: "Phil, do you still have a part-time matchmaking job in S.H.I.E.L.D.?" ”

"No, I see that you have a good relationship with her, you ...... today. Why don't you take a trip? ”

"Okay, I'll be over in a moment."

Mercer didn't know how to react to Coulson's words, but he was happy to see that Melinda was a woman with a unique temperament who made a deep impression on him.

"Brother, are you going out? What's wrong? ”

It's the weekend, and Dana, who is also resting at home, asks as she looks at Mercer with a strange expression.

"Nothing, a friend has come back and is going to check it out," Mercer said, wiping the water on the floor.

"Friends? Female? ”

Dana relied on the woman's illogical but extremely accurate sixth sense to directly deduce the truth of the matter.

"Uh, yes, a S.H.I.E.L.D. guy, I'm back from the mission", Mercer said embarrassedly, and then he reacted, this is my sister, not my wife, what am I panicking about?

"Is it the female agent who went to Stark Industries last time?"

"Yes."

"Then brother is going to play, Pepper is back today, I'll stay with her for two days," Dana said angrily.

"Uh, that's not what it meant......"

"Brother, whatever you mean, you're almost thirty and you're not ......married," said Dana, who went back to her bedroom to pack her things, not worried that Mercer was hungry.

Dana drove her brother's BMW X5 and left directly, while Mercer was watching the TV in a daze, and he himself was confused by Dana.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Mercer was dressed up, a beautiful slim-fitting suit looked extremely close-fitting, and with Armani's perfume, it definitely had a high return rate.

……

Downstairs from S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

"Alex, you ......," Coulson asked about the perfume smell on Mercer's body, and he didn't know what to say.

Mercer still maintains the habit of his previous life, almost never wearing perfume, except for special occasions, and wears comfortable and close-fitting sportswear every day. Today's outfit is definitely abnormal.

"What's the matter, I made a fortune some time ago and bought some new clothes!"

Mercer looked at Coulson, looking right, but in his heart he also felt that his behavior was a little strange.

"I'll take you in, I'll not go, Melinda works on the ninth floor now, you can see it when you go in," Coulson said in a strange tone.

Coulson led Mercer to the elevator on the ninth floor, and then disappeared, Mercer straightened the collar of his shirt that had not buttoned the first button, and walked into the office that Coulson was referring to.

Melinda is not the only one in the office, there are seven other people who share the office, but for the office environment, it is relatively spacious.

Mercer saw the black-haired Melinda at a glance, and the other party also noticed Mercer's arrival, and the expression on his face was very surprised, but he still stood up and went outside the office with Mercer.

"Long time no see, Melinda."

"Alex, long time no see, how are you doing?"

Melinda replied, but Mercer could feel that there was no fighting spirit in the other party's tone, and all that was left was a sense of twilight.

"Lately, how about you? I happened to be here to run errands, and then I heard that you were back, so I came over to see if I had time to have a meal together after work? ”

"You and Coulson, go ahead, I'm going home from work," Melinda said, thinking Mercer had invited someone else.

"No, I mean it's just you and me, after you helped me that time, I didn't have time to treat you to dinner, and now it's just time to make up for it. Don't say no, I rarely invite people to dinner. ”

Mercer came up with a plausible excuse, and it was the result of what he had thought about all the way.

“…… Okay, but I still have an hour to get off work......"

"It's okay, I'll go talk to Nick Fury."

Mercer waved his hand, and then turned away without waiting for Melinda to say anything.

Melinda looked at Mercer's back with a complicated expression.

……

In Mercer's car, Melinda seemed a little at a loss.

"Alex, Coulson called you over, right?"

"Well, he said that you are in a bad mood and want to see if I can enlighten you", Mercer said bluntly without hiding it.

“……”

"Melinda, I'll take you to a delicious French restaurant, not many people in New York know about it. Don't think about something unhappy before eating, or you won't be able to eat. ”

"And what about after eating?"

"If you're full and happy, you'll forget about it."

“……”

I don't know if it's because of Mercer's rhetoric or because the restaurant is really delicious, Melinda and Mercer really ate a lot.

"Mercer, have you ever killed an innocent person?"

Melinda took a sip of red wine and asked in a quiet tone.

"I'll talk about this just after eating. Killed, killed. ”

Whether it is the person who killed himself on a mission in his previous life, or the person infected by the virus, or the person who he helped Norman Osborne kill a few days ago, how many people really deserve to die, and even if they deserve to die, they should not die in their own hands.

Melinda then asked, but her hand trembled a little, "What does it feel?" ”

"It feels different at different times," Mercer said, not knowing exactly what was being posted, but vaguely guessing a little.

"First, if the other party wants to kill me, if he doesn't die, I have to die; Second, if I don't kill him, he won't live, but will experience more suffering; Third, I get a lot by killing the other person, maybe it's money or something else. ”

"Then have you ever killed someone for money?"

"......," Mercer didn't speak, just picked an oyster into his mouth.

Melinda didn't ask, raised her eyebrows and said, "Do you know I'm divorced?" ”

"I see that the ring on your hand is gone", Mercer did not betray Coulson.

"Do you know a place where you can drink quietly?"

"If you want to drink it, you have it."

……

The wind is strong in the evening, and the spring breeze is once.

Mercer's apartment welcomed a second woman besides Dana, and it is estimated that it will be the last...... Others are expected to go to new villas.

Mercer and Melinda leaned side by side at the head of the bed, each with a cigarette lit in their hands, and Mercer expressed his joy at the power of the Black Light Virus.

"Alex, I feel so weird"

Melinda now had a released expression on her face, and the flush didn't know if it was the effect of alcohol or something.

"Strange? What do you mean? ”

"Why am I lying here?"

"I thought you were saying I didn't expect me to have such a function, haha."

Mercer and Melinda were silent, and the smoke gradually burned to the end, and Melinda's head rested on Mercer's shoulder.

Mercer snuffed out the burned cigarette with his fingers and threw it into the trash can.

Melinda's voice trembled a little and said, "Do you want to know what's going on?" ”

"If you want to say it."

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