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

pause, he eventually

If I don’t get back in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I

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

hectic day for the Federal Bureau of

he could even see

households in Salinsburgh were now on high

skies remained dark after the rain, making

Cedrick got into his

trip had been

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

blanket search, and whatever new intel they had

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

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

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

Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick

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

in his

was midnight when Cedrick finally

tiredness in his eyes, the

was met with silence and a

bed, watching over the

and Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having fallen

to get them to

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

taken aback upon hearing

up the role of a parent and helped put Zendy to sleep while I

sense of relief washed over him after a long day

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

pulled up 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 go. I

the thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch