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

a brief pause, he eventually settled with his prior decision

in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll come

nothing more and did as told so

day for the Federal

he could even see to the tragic

all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were now on high alert, worried about

after the rain, making

Cedrick

trip had been completely

had managed to slip away. The more we try to go after them, the more

and whatever new intel they had received earlier was of no

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

all the results of their investigations

would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or Cedrick’s,

Investigation and Cedrick like the

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

in his heart only

when Cedrick finally arrived back at the

eyes, the man pushed the door open and heard no sounds of

silence and a dimly lit

the

Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having

actually managed to

to give it to them for behaving so well tonight, though. Zendy threw such a huge fit at first, but after

aback upon hearing

of a parent and helped put Zendy to sleep

sense of relief washed over him after a long

room next door. I’ll watch over

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

thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In