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

the kids. I’ll come back as soon

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

for the Federal

even see to the tragic case of the

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

remained dark after the rain, making the entire

Cedrick got into

trip had

to go after them, the more

failed to make any progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel

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

and began to analyze all the results of their investigations from the past two days, along with how their target

know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s

to understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and

Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his

his heart

finally arrived

eyes, the man pushed the door open and heard no

met with silence and a dimly

sat next to the bed, watching over the

in bed, seemingly having fallen asleep

was surprised. “You actually managed to get them to sleep?

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 to talk

aback upon

of a parent and

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

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

here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should

on the couch waiting for him.