Chapter 1148: Revealing a Secret to Her

Elias slammed on the brakes. "What did you say?"

"I said Hannah might have taken something important. Don’t let her get away!"

"Too late." Elias hung up and drove off at full speed.

Right after leaving the Quinn Group, Hannah had said she wanted to go back alone and he’d agreed, but he never thought she’d still be so unrepentant!

"Jared Quinn, hurry, have Harold Chapman track down where Hannah is right now," Melody Thorne said anxiously.

What would a woman like Hannah want with that thing? And how did she even know it was important?

Harold’s people quickly sealed off all major roads, and personnel were stationed at every airport to conduct inspections, in case Hannah tried to take those things out of the country.

They tracked Hannah from the moment she left the Quinn Group all the way to the car she got into. That car wasn’t something just anyone could afford; it was a limited edition, and it didn’t even have plates.

They moved in fast. Harold’s men surrounded several vehicles suspected of having Hannah inside.

"What do we do? We can’t get out now," Hannah said anxiously, looking outside.

"Did you get what you said you would?" the man driving asked.

"I got it, of course I got it. That Melody Thorne is my mortal enemy. I’ve been the one guarding the secret of those paintings all this time—why should they fall into their hands?"

Many years ago she’d already known she wasn’t Elias Hale’s biological sister, which was the only reason she dared have those kinds of feelings for him. If she’d really been his blood sister, how could she have dared?

When she was very young, a man came to her and told her the truth, and he also told her a secret—about those four paintings. The man claimed to be her father, and her mission was to find those four paintings.

The first people she suspected were the Quinn Family, but at the time she had no proof, and her probing of Melody Thorne yielded nothing.

These past few days she’d been quietly digging for news about Melody, keeping tabs on all the Quinn Family’s movements, so she was able to infer the secret hidden in the giant beast’s eyes in that painting.

Only, she’d heard it from that man; she didn’t actually know what was inside those eyes. All she knew was that it was some kind of structure, and when all the structures were combined, they formed a weapons development blueprint.

That was why she’d come back to beg Elias for forgiveness, and used the chance to follow him into the Quinn Group.

"Give it to me," the man reached his hand out toward her.

"No. We may have already agreed on a price and I will give it to you, but only after you help me take down the Quinn Family and that woman I told you about!"

"Don’t push your luck!" The man suddenly brought the car to a stop, grabbed her with both hands, and easily snatched away the bag she’d been guarding so tightly!

"You can’t break the deal!" Hannah screamed.

"I don’t want to either, but if I don’t, I’ll never get out of here. You’re the one who’ll be fine. Don’t worry, I’ll definitely do what I promised you!" The man shoved Hannah out of the car with one hard push, then sped off!

"Sonny, you’ll regret this!" Hannah screamed.

Several cars pulled up behind her, surrounding her completely!

This was Harold Chapman’s turf. Elias’s face was as dark as ink.

"Hannah, you’ve let me down too much."

"Bro, no, it’s not like that. It was my illness acting up. I don’t even know what happened, I just had an episode. You have to believe me, I never meant to steal those sheets of paper! I don’t even know what they are," Hannah babbled, flustered.

Melody Thorne sat on the sofa. "Your illness sure picked a perfect time to act up. There are so many important documents in Jared Quinn’s office, and you didn’t take any of those—you just happened to take those paintings. And there just happened to be someone waiting outside the company to pick you up, is that it?"