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

he eventually settled with his prior decision

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

otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as told

a hectic day for the Federal Bureau of

with investigations before he could even see

to the Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were now

skies remained dark after the rain, making the

Cedrick got into

had been

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

any progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel they had received earlier was

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

analyze all the results of their investigations from the past two days, along with how

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

to understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like the back of his or

help but remember his old comrade on the run—Joe

his heart

when Cedrick finally arrived back at the

his eyes, the man

with silence and a

watching over the children while on the verge of dozing

and Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having fallen

to get them

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

was taken aback

role of a parent and

boy, a sense of relief washed over him after a

tired, Cedrick. Get some rest in the room next door.

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

the couch waiting for him. “In that