Pierce Was Completely Dumbfounded

Nick Fury watched the footage, his feelings extremely complicated.

From the conversation just now, Evenson clearly knew those two women, but it had only been a coincidence. After that night at the little motel, they had neither contacted nor seen each other again. That was easy enough to understand. Something like that was merely a small episode in one's personal life. Once it was over, everyone returned to their original lives. If they met again, there would be nothing but awkwardness between them.

So during the past period, Evenson's silence regarding those two women was not because he had been hiding anything. It was because there truly had been no relationship between them, nothing worth mentioning.

But at some unknown point, they had met again. This meeting obviously was not to reminisce about some nonexistent affection from the past, but to begin some kind of cooperation. Their reunion must have been incredibly awkward.

Still, under those circumstances, if all three of them had been smart, they should have pretended not to know one another and selectively forgotten what had happened before. Unfortunately, one of them was clearly an idiot! And Nick Fury was certain that person had been Evenson. That fool must have let it slip and brought up the matter. That was why they were so uncomfortable around each other now. The whole thing looked awkward no matter how he viewed it.

But none of that mattered. Nick Fury had no time to care how they felt upon suddenly discovering that a business partner was someone they had once had a good time with for a night. What concerned him most was the gentleman they had mentioned in that conversation.

Based on the intelligence currently available, this cooperation had not begun because Gospel Company had approached Evenson, nor because