The Ex and Her Riches

There was pin-drop silence in the surveillance room as everyone waited for an update.

Nobody dared say a word when they felt the intimidating aura that Cedrick exuded.

Cedrick had an icy-cold look in his eyes as he glared at the screen.

The time Swain managed to track the GPS signal from Gwendolyn’s phone was exactly when the car stopped outside the surveillance camera’s field of view.

That was way too much of a coincidence.

However, that car had left the moment they decided to head toward Xanthon Highway. Cedrick could only watch as the car, which Gwendolyn could be in, disappeared from sight.

“Mr. Jenson! Chief Jaeger! Chief Swain! We’ve discovered something!” said a police officer dressed in a raincoat as he came running in through the door.

He then quickly took his raincoat off and retrieved a piece of evidence that he had kept safely inside his pocket.

“Mr. Jenson, this is what we managed to find on the highway after searching the blind spots of the two surveillance cameras. It was found at a very obvious spot, so I’m not sure how useful it will be,” the police officer continued while handing it over to Cedrick.

Cedrick’s expression slid into a frown as he took the phone over and saw that it had Gwendolyn’s favorite phone case on it.

“Boss, that’s Mrs. Jenson’s phone!” Swain exclaimed in shock.

Cedrick stared at the screen of the phone in silence as he unlocked it. Apparently, it had been formatted and put on flight mode, which was why their calls couldn’t get through.

In the phone’s memo, he saw a sentence that read: It looks like your wife really is your weakness, Cedrick!

Each word sounded incredibly menacing and threatening.

Swain gasped anxiously from the side. “It looks like they really are holding Mrs. Jenson captive!”

and rage as he glared at the memo on the phone. His body exuded a terrifying aura as

that he didn’t dare say a word. His face turned pale when he received another message on

plate is fake, and the

he ordered, “Continue investigating it! Check the footage from all surveillance cameras in

and continued, “Bring this back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and have the technicians restore its data from before it was formatted. I

Swain replied as he whipped out a clear plastic bag and carefully placed

everyone ran off

was still raining late

Bureau of Investigation. With his wife’s whereabouts still unknown, he couldn’t bring himself to go home and face the questioning

wife really is your weakness,

memo kept

stressed out that he could barely

huh? Gwenny is my life! It took me almost everything

of guilt and self-blame filled his heart, Cedrick retrieved the box of cigarettes from his drawer, switched off the lights in his office, and began puffing

of the office and would intensify from

Charles was reading Zendaya a

his poor storytelling skills, however, Zendaya complained that he

on for a really long

up in the middle of

sobbing at

her eyes had turned

matter, Zendy? Did you have a nightmare?” he asked while giving her a comforting

his muscular arms and buried

She was injured and didn’t want us anymore…” Zendaya mumbled incoherently while sobbing, but Charles was able to figure out

I will protect her. It was just a nightmare, Zendy.

shirt to wipe her tears and snot as she continued, “I miss Mommy, Uncle Charles! Could you bring me to see her? I want Mommy to tuck me

silent when he heard

crying so much that she started hiccupping, Charles had no choice but to