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

brief pause, he eventually settled with his prior decision

kids. I’ll

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

was a hectic day for the Federal

he could even see to the tragic case

the Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh

the rain, making the

Cedrick got

trip had been

more we try to go after

progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel they

turned to his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the

investigations from the past

know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or

Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like the

this point, Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old comrade on the

suspicions in his heart

finally

his eyes, the

with silence and

bed, watching over the children while

lay in bed, seemingly having fallen asleep

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

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 fell asleep. Then, he went to bed with her without me having

taken aback upon

role of a parent and helped put Zendy to

little boy, a sense of relief washed over him after

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

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

in shame at the thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for