The Ex and Her Riches

After jotting down the two series of numbers, Cedrick kept the repaired phone and placed a bank card on the table.

“This is your compensation. You know the rules; keep this matter to yourself.”

He sounded so icy that there was not a hint of emotion in his voice.

Owen nodded anxiously. “Don’t worry, Mr. Jenson. I understand.”

After retrieving the phone, Cedrick made his way back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation swiftly.

It had been over twenty hours since Gwendolyn went missing.

As Harris Group needed to operate per usual, Cedrick had called its personal assistant, instructing to have all schedules and contract-signing events postponed.

To avoid causing a buzz, he told the Harris family nothing about this incident, instead focusing on investigations.

After running a check on the two unsaved phone numbers, the man learned that they belonged to real people and came from a hospital overseas.

The numbers belonged to a female doctor whom the owner of the phone had contacted.

While this didn’t seem to help much, Cedrick couldn’t help but feel dubious about the two overseas numbers.

Nico and Swain made progress by noon.

After going through every road’s surveillance footage, they saw that the black vehicle had last appeared on a market street in a certain small town called Quawak.

There were little to no surveillance cameras in that rural area, so the Federal Bureau of Investigation could only secure a vague location of the car.

Furthermore, there was no footage of the vehicle leaving the town.

Cedrick used a red marker to circle Quawak on the map, then instructed, “Nico, get Team Four ready to come with me to Quawak. Also, tell the reserve police in this area to seal off all of Quawak’s roads by today.”

Nico appeared stumped. “I’ll go instead. Quawak’s pretty far from Salinsburgh, so it’ll take a long time to get there and come back. If you were to go there personally, you wouldn’t make it back to the lab in time to keep Benny and Zendy company. There’s no way I’d be able to handle them by myself.”

find his wife while watching over

brief pause, he eventually settled with his prior

I don’t get back in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he

the man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as

was a hectic day for

even see to

Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were now on high alert, worried about being the next

the rain, making the entire city look

ten hours later, Cedrick got

had been

slip away. The more we try to go after them, the more they seem to vanish. We couldn’t even find that black car

progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel they had received earlier

It’ll be past eleven by the time I

his worries aside and began to analyze all the results of their investigations

the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or Cedrick’s, for that

this person seemed to understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like the back of his or her

this point, Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old

his heart only grew

finally

the man

silence and a dimly lit bedside

next to the bed, watching over the children while

and Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having fallen asleep long

was surprised. “You actually managed to get them to

first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a story, the girl actually fell asleep. Then, he went to

taken aback

up the role of a parent and helped

little boy, a sense of relief washed over him after a long

Get some rest in the room

up a chair, and sat at the bedside. “It’s fine. I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should go. I don’t want to bother your quiet time

in shame at the thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In that case… have a good