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

a brief pause, he eventually settled with

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

that he couldn’t convince the man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as told so the latter could leave and

was a hectic day for the

see to the tragic case of the

to the Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were

rain,

Cedrick got into his

trip had been completely

whole town having been closed off, the suspect had managed to slip away. The more we try to go after

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

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

aside and began to analyze all the results of their investigations from the past

even a repeat offender would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s

the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like the back of his or her

Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old comrade on

his heart only grew

was midnight when Cedrick finally arrived back at

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

with silence and a dimly lit

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

Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having fallen asleep

managed to get them to sleep? Unbelievable,” he

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

aback

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

relief washed over him after a long

be tired, Cedrick. Get some rest in the room next

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

anxiously on the couch