It'll Cost You Extra

"Boss, why aren't you asleep yet?"

Vanax wrapped her long legs tightly around Yuri's waist and looped her pale, strong arms around his neck. She leaned closer, warm breath brushing his ear as she spoke. "If you can't sleep, could you teach me?"

Yuri really couldn't sleep!

Human decency and bestial desire were waging a battle in his mind. He regretted making the woman in his arms so beautiful.

"Teach me~ Come on, teach me~"

Vanax didn't notice how dangerous her situation was. She kept wriggling and wriggling until she finally succeeded in driving away the last of Yuri's restraint.

Yuri pinned the silly bird beneath him. "You want me to teach you?"

Vanax saw the longing in Yuri's trembling golden eyes. She darted her gaze away and instinctively tightened her jade-like arms around his neck. "I-I do..."

"Click!"

The door locked.

The soundproofing kicked in.

The instant the third floor fell completely silent, Kate, on the second floor, crushed the portable computer in her hand. She glanced at the three men who didn't dare say a word, then silently lay down on the hard iron bed.

I'll let you have him tonight. First thing tomorrow morning, I'll take over the boss's bed. You think you can mate with the boss?

Just lie there on the second floor and listen!

Noon.

After a busy morning in bed, Yuri carried Vanax out of the bathroom.

"Did you learn your lesson?"

Yuri tossed the silly bird onto the bed, then got dressed in front of the mirror. He turned on his phone and saw that his good employee Yinsen had called more than a dozen times that morning.

"Mm!"

Vanax clearly still hadn't gotten used to her human body. She instinctively shook herself, trying to fling off the water droplets clinging to her skin.

"Flap flap flap...!"

Yuri turned around and saw two enormous breasts bouncing at high speed. His handsome face fell, and he walked over and wrapped the silly bird in a blanket like a sushi roll.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

"Quiet!"

Yuri opened the door and heard a flurry of commotion on the second floor...

When he went down to check, he couldn't help exclaiming, "Well, I'll be damned." Three grown men were huddled under a single trench coat, while Kate had three blankets all to herself—one spread over the bed, one worn around her, and one draped over her!

"Boss."

"Boss."

"Boss."

Yuri walked over to Kate's bed—the only one who hadn't greeted him—and immediately spotted the corner of a portable computer, though she'd tried hard to hide it.

"Boss..."

Kate knew she couldn't hide it any longer. She sat up and lowered her head, pulling the portable computer out from under the covers. "Um, I accidentally broke it."

Yuri just stared at her.

Kate held his gaze for a few seconds, but in the end, she crumbled under the Leader's powerful pressure. She got out of bed and stood close beside Yuri, rubbing her head against his arm. "I want to go upstairs and mate with you too, Boss~"

Yuri's mouth twitched. He pushed Kate away and headed out, saying, "All you ever think about is mating. Have some dignity! Stay here and behave. I'm going to buy you all some clothes..."

A flash of excitement crossed Kate's cool, lovely face. Cats were very perceptive. She knew the boss had already agreed in his heart. All she had to do tonight was get to that big bed on the third floor before the stupid bird did...

Yuri had no idea what Kate was thinking. He opened the security door in the hallway, wondering what sort of clothes he should buy.

"Boss!"

As he rounded the corner, Yinsen rushed up to him with a worried look. He grabbed Yuri by the sleeve and complained incessantly, "There's an agent here claiming to be from the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. He's been hanging around the shop and won't leave. I called you more than a dozen times. Why are you only coming out now?"

S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Yuri removed Yinsen's hand and straightened his collar as he descended the last flight of stairs. The organization had a long name, but it had no offense and no defense. In the end, even the Avengers' funding came from Tony's Stark Industries.

The only things Motherfucker Man could brag about were probably his pager, which he'd kept in storage for over a decade, and the Cosmic Cube, which Hydra actually controlled.

On the rather cramped first floor.

Yuri immediately spotted Agent Coulson, the friendly-looking new-player village chief with a hairline that had receded all the way to the top of his head.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Yuri Ambrosius! My name is Phil Coulson. I'm with the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. You can call me Coulson."

No one could refuse Coulson's smile and outstretched hand. Yuri nodded politely, made a fist with his right hand, and lightly tapped Coulson's hand of friendship.

Coulson didn't seem embarrassed in the slightest. He naturally folded his hands in front of his abdomen and explained why he'd come. "We heard from Tony that he visited you last night. Do you know anything about the Iron Armor that appeared at the Osborn Building and Stark Tower last night?"

Yuri chuckled. Tony wouldn't have given him up so easily.

A master of social interaction and an elite among humanity, Coulson picked up on Yuri's suspicion and immediately took a document from his briefcase and handed it to him.

"Special Item Permanent Transfer Agreement?"

It said that the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division would permanently transfer Howard Stark's belongings to his son, Tony Stark, and so on. Tony Stark's full name was clearly signed on the last page!

"He really sold me out just like that!?"

Yuri shook the document, making the pages rustle. This wasn't how things were supposed to go. Had curing Tony's injury completely caused a butterfly effect in this world?

Coulson smiled again. "It was just a trade, Mr. Ambrosius. We gave him the belongings of his father, which were supposed to remain sealed away permanently, in exchange for some information about last night. Tony said you were the pilot of the two humanoid aircraft."

That bastard!

Yuri cursed the mustachioed man's despicable character. Selling him out was bad enough, but why did he have to smear him as part of the deal?

What did he mean, "the pilot of the two humanoid aircraft"?

Since you betrayed me first, don't blame me for betraying you in return!

"All right..."

Yuri put on an expression that said, It's so hard to be caught when you've discovered the truth, then declared indignantly, "Mr. Coulson, just as Tony said, I was the pilot of the two humanoid aircraft. But who piloted them isn't important. I think the real question is who invented them!"

Coulson picked up on the implication and hurriedly pressed him. "You know who invented them?"

"I do, but the inventor is a dear friend of mine, practically a brother!"

Yuri earnestly rubbed his thumb and forefinger together. "It'll cost you extra!"