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.”

his wife while watching over his

eventually

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

man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as

day for the Federal Bureau

himself with investigations before he could even see to

Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh

the rain, making the

hours later, Cedrick got

trip had been completely

managed to slip away. The more we try to go after them, the more they

failed to make any progress from this blanket search, and whatever

the dark sky and turned to his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the time I get back.

began to analyze all the results of their investigations from the past two days, along with how their target had been eluding

ever know 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

Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old comrade on the run—Joe

his heart only

Cedrick finally arrived back at

the man

was met with silence and a

the children while on

Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly

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

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

was taken aback upon hearing

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

relief washed over him after a

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

must be waiting for you at home, so you should go. I don’t want to bother your quiet time

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