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

pause, he eventually settled with his prior

I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he stated adamantly, showing no

said nothing more and did as told so the latter could leave and

for the

he could even see to the tragic case of

households in Salinsburgh were now on high alert,

after the rain, making the entire city

hours later, Cedrick

had been

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

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

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

results of their investigations from the past two

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

person seemed to understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like the back of

couldn’t help but remember his old comrade on

suspicions in his heart only grew

midnight when Cedrick finally arrived back at the

the man pushed the door

met with silence and a dimly lit bedside

the bed, watching over the children while on

Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having

surprised. “You actually managed to get

for behaving so well tonight, though. Zendy threw such a huge fit at first, but after

aback

a parent and helped put Zendy to sleep while I wasn’t

sense of relief washed over him

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

bedside. “It’s fine. I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should go. I don’t

the couch waiting