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.”

wife

eventually settled with his

kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,”

nothing more and did as told so the latter could leave

a hectic day for the Federal Bureau of

he could even see to the tragic case of the Cloud

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

rain, making the entire

later, Cedrick

trip had been

we try to go after them, the more they seem to vanish. We couldn’t

progress from this blanket search, and

and turned to his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the time I get back. How is Nico

to analyze all the results of their investigations from the past two

even a repeat offender would ever know the Federal

of Investigation

but remember

suspicions in his

Cedrick finally

eyes, the man pushed

with silence and a dimly lit bedside

to the bed, watching over the children while on the verge of

bed,

“You actually managed to get them to sleep? Unbelievable,” he

his head in slight embarrassment. “You overestimate me. I really have to give it to them for behaving so well tonight, though. Zendy threw such a huge fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a story, the girl actually fell asleep. Then, he went to bed with her without me having to talk him

aback

took up the role of a parent and helped put Zendy to sleep while

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

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

stay here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should go. I

sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In that case… have a