"Mm, okay. Once you go to your meeting, I'll go take a nap."
"Jared, Leon Rivers suddenly rushed in. "Have you seen the news?"
"Something happened?"
Leon tapped a few words on the computer and casually opened a news article. Melody Thorne curiously craned her neck to look; the text and pictures on it were all about a painting.
It said that a treasure map was hidden in that painting, and as long as you found it, you could locate the inheritance of a famous painter. Rumor had it that this mid-20th-century painter's wealth alone could pile up into a mountain.
"This is total bullshit." Melody slipped and cursed without thinking.
Jared Quinn "…"
He glanced over at her with a warning look. Do you even know what "bullshit" means?
"I mean they're just talking nonsense." Melody quickly corrected herself. That thing was clearly a weapons development blueprint.
