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 with his prior decision

get back in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I

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

day for

see to

all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were now

dark after the rain, making the

ten hours later, Cedrick got

had been completely

had managed to slip away. The more we try to

search, and whatever new intel they

out at the dark sky and turned to his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the

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

repeat offender would ever know the Federal Bureau

person seemed to understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick

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

in his heart

when Cedrick finally

the man pushed the door

with silence and a dimly

next to the bed, watching over the children while on the verge of

and Zendaya lay in bed,

surprised. “You actually managed to get them

fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a story, the girl actually fell asleep. Then, he

aback

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

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

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

over slowly, 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 don’t want to bother your

his head in shame at the thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for