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.”

to find his wife while watching over his

he eventually settled with his

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

nothing more and did as told

day for the Federal

even see to the tragic

had happened to the Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were now on

rain, making the entire city look

later, Cedrick got

had

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

blanket search, and whatever

his watch. It’ll be

their investigations from the past two days, along with how their target had

offender would ever know the Federal Bureau

Federal Bureau of Investigation

help but remember his old

in his

finally arrived back

to conceal the tiredness in his eyes, the man

was met with silence and a

sat next to the bed, watching over the children while

lay in bed, seemingly having fallen asleep long

to get them to sleep? Unbelievable,”

a huge fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a story, the girl actually

aback

of a parent and helped put Zendy to sleep while I

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

the room next door. I’ll watch over Benny and Zendy,” Nico

a chair, and sat at the bedside. “It’s fine. I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should

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