My Super Sassy Dad: Stop Running Away, Mrs. Quinn!-Chapter 451: Gunpowder

"Alright, alright," the waiter immediately led Melody Thorne to the staff quarters to fetch a new set of clothes for her.

Melody Thorne changed into the clothes and tossed the money to the waiter. "You can go back to the front desk. Don’t follow me; I want to give him a surprise. You just need to tell me the room number."

"1506."

Melody Thorne walked out of the hotel staff quarters, entered the elevator, holding the employee badge she had taken from the waiter.

In front of room 1506, Melody Thorne saw the two women who had appeared in the restroom earlier come out, looking somewhat flustered.

"What’s going on?" One of the women spoke impatiently, looking around cautiously. "Our people have been waiting so long. Why didn’t you act just now? What are you hesitating for?"

"It’s not that," the other woman gritted her teeth. "I just feel something’s off. Haven’t you noticed everything we’re doing today has gone too smoothly? Besides, Jared Quinn has always been so cautious. How could he be so calm today, even letting us sit beside him without driving us away?"

"Are you stupid? If he drives us away, how can we act?" One of the women spoke impatiently, grabbing the other woman’s arm. "Come on, go inside; we must act. If we don’t, Crestfall won’t let us off!"

Melody Thorne, wearing a waiter’s uniform, walked out from behind the stairs, intending to head to that room when suddenly her arm was grabbed from behind.

"Who?" Before Melody Thorne could turn around, her mouth was covered with tape, and two men swiftly dragged her downstairs.

Gunshots rang out from the hotel room, and quickly, everyone withdrew in chaos.

"Got her?" Titus Quinn stared at an old painting before him, speaking calmly. Unlike Jared Quinn, his deep eyes carried vengeance and a mad ruthlessness.

"Got her, already taken to the tunnel in the back mountain."

Titus Quinn’s fingers slowly caressed the painting on the wall, his eyes filled with sorrow. "After so long, he finally has evidence against him, can finally taste the bitterness of loss. He brought this upon himself. Living high above, he never understood how hard life was for those he oppressed."

Turning around, the pain in his eyes disappeared. "Go."

"Yes." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Tied up in the tunnel, Melody Thorne watched the people around her burying something in the middle of the passage. The smell from those packages was very strong.

Like... gunpowder!

"Screech—" The sound of tire friction against the ground echoed around her.

Those people had buried the last package, and a wire was wound around Melody Thorne’s body, the timer also installed upon her.

"If you want to blame someone, blame your unlucky fate. Don’t come looking for us after you die."

"Those outside will die with you. At least you’ll have company!"

"Hahaha," they glanced outside quickly and exited through the other end of the tunnel.

As the car door closed, Harold Chapman and Leon Rivers followed behind Jared Quinn. In the dark tunnel, they could see Melody Thorne bound in the center, her body wrapped in the timer and wires.

"Jared, they planted explosives," Harold Chapman and Leon Rivers stopped simultaneously, faces changing drastically.

Jared Quinn’s dark gaze locked onto the woman bound inside, through the dimness of the tunnel.