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.”

had to find his wife while watching over his

he eventually settled with his prior

in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he

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

for

with investigations before he could even see to the tragic case

households in Salinsburgh were now on high alert, worried about being the

after the rain,

Cedrick got

trip had

the whole town having been closed off, the suspect had managed to slip away. The more we try to go after them, the more they seem to vanish. We couldn’t even find that black car

to make any progress from this blanket search, and whatever

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

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

know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or

Investigation

couldn’t help but remember his old comrade

his

midnight when Cedrick finally arrived back at

eyes, the man pushed the door open and

met with silence

to the bed, watching over the children while on

in bed, seemingly having fallen

to get them to sleep?

“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

was taken aback

up the role of a parent and helped put

a sense of relief washed over him after

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

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

Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In that case… have a good rest. I’ll come back tomorrow