Mike didn't take the $2,100 he had just been charged by the parking lot to heart.

He was in a hurry to get home.

Mike's home in New York City is located on Heather Street in Manhattan, at the westernmost end of Greenwich Village, specifically between Seventh Avenue and the Hudson River.

This is a two-way road that is about 400 meters long.

The street is lined with red brick townhouses built in the late 19th century. Each house looks almost identical, with a lawn in front, a garage that can accommodate two cars, a dark green wooden door, and three stone steps.

However, this is not Mike's house, but his adoptive parents' house.

After his adoptive parents passed away last year, the house became jointly owned by him and his half-sister Heidi.

But Heidi is a federal agent who works in Washington, D.C., and doesn't come back to New York City very often, so Mike usually lives alone in this house.

However, Mike didn't change the interior layout of the house much.

The house remains exactly as it was when his adoptive parents were alive. Mike hasn't even moved into the master bedroom; he still lives in the second bedroom, which he's been used to living in for many years.

Mike returned to Heather Street at six o'clock in the evening.

As he drove onto Heather Street, the first thing he noticed was a house with light shining from the fifth window from the street.

That was his home.

After driving the car to the garage door, Mike raised an eyebrow as he looked at the black Dodge already parked inside the garage.

after awhile.

After parking his car next to the black Dodge, he closed the garage door before pushing open the small door connecting the garage and the house and entering the house.

Then Mike saw the woman who was standing at the kitchen bar, looking in his direction after hearing the noise.

The woman had long, dark brown hair tied into a neat low ponytail at the back of her head. She wore a well-tailored dark gray suit jacket, with the corner of a leather holster peeking out from under the jacket. On her left wrist was a black watch with a scratched dial. Her face had distinct features and a pair of light brown eyes. She wasn't the delicate, demure type; one glance was enough to tell that this woman was a very independent woman.

It's none other than someone else.

It was his half-sister, who was an FBI agent.

Heidi Ametra!

Mike preemptively took off his coat and walked towards the kitchen bar: "Why are you back today? On vacation?"

Heidi watched as Mike draped his coat over the hanger, pulled out a bar stool, and sat down at the bar. She picked up her coffee again, took a sip, and continued looking at her laptop as she said, "I was transferred back to the federal office in New York from Washington, D.C., two weeks ago."

Mike raised an eyebrow and looked at Heidi.

Heidi looked up at Mike, who was looking at her, and said calmly, "Didn't you say you were going to London for a trip? Why did you go to Norway instead? And why can't I reach you by phone?"

Mike paused for a moment upon hearing this, then seemed to remember something and slapped his forehead: "My bad, sorry, my phone got frozen while I was traveling in the Arctic. I figured I was coming back anyway, so I didn't buy a new phone there."

The phone was destroyed during the battle with Malekith.

When he came out of the Arctic and went to Natik's house to rest for a while, Natik invited him to go fishing at sea.

Mike thought it would be nice to relax, so he went along and spent three days there.

It's true that he didn't want to buy a phone there. Anyway, he was going back to New York City soon, and Heidi already had several old phones at home, so there was no need to waste the money.

Save where you should, spend where you should.

The most important thing.

He didn't expect Heidi to be transferred from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. back to New York City. When the two were separated by distance, due to Heidi's work, they would only call each other when they had free time on weekends. Sometimes, when Heidi was busy, they wouldn't even make a single call for a whole month.

"Oh, right!"

Mike thought to himself, then changed the subject, looking at Heidi with some curiosity: "Why were you suddenly transferred back to New York City? I've never heard you mention it."

Heidi took a sip of coffee: "About two weeks ago, my supervisor said that the New York office was short-staffed, and I was also thinking of going back to New York City."

At this point, Heidi put down her coffee, looked at Mike, and smiled slightly: "What, you don't welcome me back? Do you have a girlfriend?"

Mike looked at Heidi's smile and didn't find it pretty; instead, he felt a strange, unsettling feeling.

Let me put it this way.

Brothers with older sisters all understand.

Mike chuckled, meeting Heidi's gaze without flinching: "Believe me, if I get a girlfriend, you'll be the first to know."

He wasn't a staunch advocate of not getting married or being single; he simply hadn't met a woman who made his heart flutter.

That's it.

As Mike spoke, he steered the conversation back to Heidi herself.

"And what about you, boyfriend?"

"We broke up."

Heidi picked up her coffee cup again, her tone very calm.

Mike was slightly taken aback.

"They broke up again? With John?"

"No, Adam, John broke up with you the day after we spoke two months ago."

"hiss!"

Upon hearing this, Mike subconsciously gasped, looked at Heidi's calm expression, clicked his tongue twice, and shook his head: "Heidi, do you think I still have a chance to walk down the aisle with you?"

Her adoptive parents are now dead. If Heidi gets married, it will be him who takes Heidi's hand and hands her over to her future husband.

But Heidi's emotional experiences were... too rich.

of course.

Mike made no comment on Heidi's love life.

Everyone has their own way of living, and as long as Heidi doesn't care, he won't say anything.

Even though Mike and Heidi hadn't seen each other for two months, in just a few words of question and answer, the siblings, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, seemed to find the feeling of bickering as children again.

Heidi recounts how a male agent in the New York office recently invited her out for a drink, and what she's been considering.

Mike recounted their meetings during his trips to London and Norway, and Heidi's eyes lit up, especially when she talked about going fishing at sea with Natick.

"Sea fishing sounds great, I want to go too."

"Then take a vacation."

Mike looked at Heidi and said with a smile, "I'll go with you. The roasted polar bear in Natick is sure to be delicious. By the way, have you taken any vacation since you started working?"

Heidi shook her head with a wry smile.

"I'd like to, but I can't."

"Why not? Does the FBI in New York not function without you?"

"..."

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