Seeing Elena's tangled expression, Luke rubbed her head: "Just listen to your arrangement, anyway, I'm skipping work today."
Elena laughed happily and pressed her head against his chest before she moved her hand and started talking to Margaret.
At the end of the call, she reported an address.
Luke got into the car with her and set off with a strange expression, and arrived in front of a building in more than ten minutes.
Taking the elevator up to the 32nd floor, Luke looked at a familiar standing sign, his heart didn't fluctuate, and he even wanted to laugh.
"Despair" Monroe-Petersen Exhibition.
The tall, blond Margaret was standing beside the stand, wearing a simple and elegant white dress.
Seeing Luke and Elena, a bright smile appeared on her beautiful face, as pure as a hundred-pound child.
Well, the simplicity of this mind is better than most American middle school students.
The two girls kissed each other with a smile, and Luke also received Elena's favor and received the same treatment.
Smiling apologetically at Luke, Elena was taken away by Margarita.
A certain innocent little widow has already talked endlessly about which paintings are worth seeing in this art exhibition, and technical terms popped up one after another.
Luke smiled at Elena, who was still looking away, and signaled her to be free, and he was also free.
Petite, she was taken into the deep part of the exhibition hall by the tall Margaret, where the heavyweight works are located.
Luke is not interested in the paintings here.
If it's the classical school of realism... Well, he doesn't even bother to understand, and he doesn't know the difference between these schools.
Even the so-called "Abstract Expressionism" that Munro's works belong to can be seen from the cover of the brochure of this exhibition.
He just walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows, looked out at New York City, and planned to be alone.
A string of high heels sounded from far to near, and stopped not far behind him, and a young female voice sounded: "Detective Coulson?"
Luke turned his head, with a formulaic smile on his face: "Hello, Miss Soderbergh."
It was Lindsay who said hello.
She held out her hand with a sincere smile: "Just call me Lindsay. Also, thank you for helping me and Monroe."
Luke shook hands with her: "Then please call me Luke, besides, it's just my job."
Lindsay let go of his hand and reached out to signal: "Can I talk to you alone?"
Luke looked over there, and Margaret and Elena were standing in front of a painting in the distance, muttering, very absorbed.
Lindsay also looked over there, and said with a smile, "Margaret and I are friends. She said just now that a companion is here, but I didn't expect it to be you."
Luke chuckled: "I didn't expect that you are still here."
Lindsay sighed: "So I want to talk to you."
Luke raised his eyebrows and said nothing, just nodded, and the two walked to the corner rest area.
After sitting down, Lindsay asked the staff to bring two cups of coffee, took a sip, adjusted his emotions, and said: "Although I just said it, I still want to thank you again. Luke, thank you Everything you did for me, for Monroe."
Luke didn't be polite this time, but nodded slightly, assuming a posture of listening.
There must be something to ask for under the courtesy.
Lindsay specially brought him here to talk, presumably not just to thank him.
Lindsay didn't hesitate, and went straight to the point, talking about the whole story of her family's dispute with Monroe.
After listening for a while, Luke looked a little weird.
He is almost a man-shaped lie detector, and it is true that Lindsay's words are basically true, and she did not lie about the key thing.
If he didn't have this ability, he might regard this as a Rashomon.
Now he can only speculate that this was just a typical case of miscommunication within the family.
Lindsay and Monroe are not boyfriend and girlfriend, she just admires Monroe's work.
When she was young, she was not as sophisticated as her father Jeffrey. On a whim, she changed from "chasing paintings" to "pushing people", and became an investor in Monroe, or a speculator.
She alone funded the promotion of Monroe's works and increased his popularity. To a large extent, she wanted to get rich returns from Monroe, not because of any love.
In fact, Munro gets 50 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the paintings on display.
And in this process, the author Monroe only has the right to suggest, not the right to make decisions.
It was up to Lindsay to decide who to sell his work to and how much to sell it for.
Such a contract is not difficult for Monroe to accept.
Monroe is a typical artist.
He doesn't care about money at all, what he needs now is the approval of others.
Perhaps after being widely recognized, he doesn't even need the approval of others.
And without Lindsay's help in investment and promotion, he has no ability to show his works to the world, and there is no point in having more of those paintings.
If Lindsay hadn't been too immature and really admired his works, then give Monroe a September 1 contract, and he would still sign it without even looking at it.
This is just a typical way of cooperation between Regal II and artists.
If Monroe becomes a big success in the future, this matter can still be passed down as a good story.
But after several of Aurora's "opponent" ladies taunted behind their backs, things went uncontrollably to the wrong direction.
After investigating Monroe's resume, Aurora persuaded her daughter to give up her plan to hype Monroe, but she already suspected that her daughter had a problem with Monroe.
Munro, in his thirties, was far too young for a painter, and youth meant that the rest of his life was likely to be long.
As we all know, after the artist's death, the work will be more valuable.
This plan sounds like a life of losing money.
Lindsay, who has performed well since she was a child, and became calm, rational and intelligent when she grew up, suddenly began to use her private money to cheat on a painter, saying that she just liked his works, of course Aurora didn't believe it.
This wrong beginning led to even more wrong development, which then evolved into a family war.
It wasn't until Luke appeared that the two sides who got into the horns were pulled out.
Is the result miraculous? Not magical at all.
He just used the primary pheromone control a little bit, and used his ability to do a little experiment, and by the way, let the two of them recall each other's kindness when they quarreled.
Settle troubles, experiment ability, kill two birds with one stone.
However, the mother and daughter, who were originally emotional, no longer had chattering quarrels, and the two sides quickly reached a consensus and each took a step back.
As long as Lindsay is no longer "twitching" like before, then this will only be a small episode in her growth.
Today, she is here to arrange the finishing work, to bring this matter to an end.
Hearing Luke's name from Margaret just now, Lindsay's heart was moved at that time, and she took the initiative to come to say hello.
For some reason, when no one mentioned Luke before, she seldom thought of this peaceful young police detective.
But when she heard his name, she immediately wanted to come over to see him and say thank you.
As soon as she started talking with him, she couldn't help revealing all the secrets in her heart that she couldn't tell her friends and relatives.