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.”

his wife while watching over

he eventually settled

the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he stated adamantly, showing no room

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

was a hectic day for the Federal

even see to the tragic case of the Cloud family’s

in Salinsburgh were now on high

dark after the rain, making the entire city

hours later, Cedrick

had

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 that black

this blanket search, and whatever new intel they

be past eleven by the time I get

investigations from the past

repeat offender would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or

Investigation and Cedrick like the back of

point, Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old

his heart

Cedrick finally arrived

lashes unable to conceal the tiredness in his eyes, the man

met with silence

bed, watching over the children while on

lay in bed, seemingly having fallen

actually managed to

“You overestimate me. I really have 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

taken aback upon

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

little boy, a sense of relief washed over

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

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

sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In that case…