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

eventually settled with

back in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he stated adamantly, showing no

couldn’t convince the man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did

hectic day for the Federal Bureau of

he could even see to

had happened to the Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were now on high alert, worried about

rain, making

Cedrick got

had been

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

had failed to make any progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel they had received earlier was of

be past eleven

aside and began to analyze all the results of their investigations from the past two days, along with how

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

Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like the back

remember his old comrade on the run—Joe

in his heart only

when Cedrick finally

unable to conceal the tiredness in his eyes, the man pushed the door open

silence and a

the children while on the verge

lay in bed, seemingly having fallen

was surprised. “You actually managed to

a huge fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a

aback upon hearing

the role of a parent and

washed over him after a

Get some rest in the room next door. I’ll watch over Benny

walked over slowly, pulled up a chair, and sat at the bedside. “It’s fine. I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so

thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In that case…